juglet; flask

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Object Type: juglet; flask
Museum number: 1880,0710.8
Description: Pottery flask or juglet in Black-on-Red ware; wheel-made; globular body on a turned base, slightly concave underneath; narrow neck with central ridge flaring outwards to a trumpet mouth; arching handle from shoulder to neck-ridge; red clay (much mica) with polished surface instead of a slip, decorated in black paint: parallel bands on the body, single bands on the neck, and a single group of concentric circles on the shoulder.
Cultures/periods: Cypro-Archaic I
Production date: 750BC-600BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Aradhippou, tomb
Materials: pottery
Ware: Black-On-Red Ware
Type series: Black-on-Red IV
Technique: polished; painted; wheel-made
Dimensions: Height: 10 centimetres
Curator's comments: Circumstances of the discovery of the tomb recorded in the Book of Presents, Supplementary I, no. 2868 and Reports 1879-90, Greek and Roman Antiquities, 8th July 1880. Summarised by Bailey 1968, pp. 36-41 along with full description and interpretation of the material.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (C901); CVA British Museum 9 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 17, British Museum 9 (BM II C,c, pl. 16, 41); Bailey 1970 / The village priest's tomb at Aradippou in Cyprus (p. 47; fig. 2; pl. XVII)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: Donated by: Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
Acquisition date: 1880
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1880,0710.8

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