Black-on-Red Oinochoe

Black-on-Red Oinochoe

Description:

Pottery oinochoe or jug in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; globular body on a narrow ring base; narrow neck and trefoil mouth; double-rib handle from shoulder to rim; buff-pink clay and red slip, decorated in 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 comprising three straight lines intersecting at the top; bands on the neck, handle and base.


Dimensions: Height: 20 centimetres


Object Type: oinochoe; 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:

Aradhippou

Accession Number:

1880,0710.6