Archaic I

Red Slip Lekythos

Pottery lekythos or flask in Red Slip ware; wheel-made; baggy ovoid body on a low ring base enclosing a raised disc; carinated shoulder, narrowing to a neck with a central ridge; flat, everted rim (partly missing); small arching handle from shoulder to neck-ridge; buff clay with a dark red slip, worn away or fired black in many places; small hole in the lower body; surface also heavily calcinated and denting, probably in the kiln during firing. Dimensions: Height: 14.20 centimetres Object Type: lekythos; flask Ware: Red Slip Ware (Cyprus) Series: Red Slip II (?); Red Slip III (?) Techniques: slipped; wheel-made