Black-on-Red Dish

Black-on-Red Dish

Description:

Large pottery dish in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; shallow convex body on a turned base; thickened inverted rim; pair of opposing double-loop handles of quasi-zoomorphic type (one now lost); orange micaceous clay and red slip, decorated in black paint: bands of concentric circles of fine lines inside and out, solid handles.


Dimensions: Diameter: 25.50 centimetres; Height: 7 centimetres


Object Type: dish


Ware: Black-On-Red Ware


Series: Black-on-Red IV


Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Aradhippou

Accession Number:

1880,0710.9