Black-On-Red Oinochoe

Black-On-Red Oinochoe

Description:

Large pottery oinochoe or jug in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; globular body on a turned ring base; short, wide neck with a trefoil mouth; two-ribbed handle from shoulder to rim; buff clay and orange-red slip, decorated with black paint: large concentric circles enclosing smaller concentrics arranged around a central bull's-eye motif on each side; single bull's-eye below the mouth above which is a series of concentrics arranged each side of a motif comprised of three straight lines crossing at the top; single band at the base of the neck; solid handle


Dimensions: Height: 31 centimetres


Object Type: oinochoe; jug


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:

1880,0710.4