Black-On-Red Jug

Black-On-Red Jug

Description:

Pottery jug in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; globular body on a ring base; narrow tubular neck with a slight ridge half-way up; flat everted rim; arching handle from shoulder to neck ridge; buff clay and somewhat lustrous red slip, decorated with black paint: vertical concentric circles on each side with a bull's-eye motif in the centre, band of horizontal concentrics around the shoulder, parallel lines on the neck, solid lip and handle.


Dimensions: Height: 24 centimetres


Object Type: jug


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red II


Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1880,0710.72