Black-On-Red Jar
Description: | Pottery Black-on-Red ware jar (amphoriskos); wheel-made; biconical body on a ring base; pair of opposing handles from shoulder to rim; made of buff-orange clay covered with a lustrous slip and decorated with black paint: concentric circles on neck and shoulder, bands round lower body. Dimensions: Diameter: 6.50 centimetres rim ; Height: 8.50 centimetres Object Type: amphoriskos Ware: Black-On-Red Ware Series: Black-on-Red II Techniques: painted |
Period: | Archaic I |
Date: | 750 - 600 BC |
Collection: | British Museum |
Provenance: | Cyprus |
Accession Number: | 1935,0611.1 |