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Description: | wide mouth; black body, portions covered with black glaze, and ornamentation of honeysuckle and fret border in black and dark red on red ground. Lip chipped (Register). Pelike with main body decorated in black. Decoration: floral pattern on shoulders and neck, below a number of bands, followed by a large plain black band with a triangular patterned band at the base., Ovoid neck amphora - containers with two handles and a narrow, clearly defined neck, used for the storage of grain and liquids such as oil and wine. This example has a black body, is complete with the exception of a missing sherd from the rim and a few slight nicks to the base. The interior of the rim and neck are painted black. Between the insertion points for the two double reeded handles are three palmettes on each side, each inverse to the next, painted in black and dark/brown/red, with a dot to the side of each large central leaf in dark brown/red over a tan background. From the ribbed joint between the neck and shoulders the pattern is repeated, only on a slightly larger scale with dots on eaither side of each palmette. The handles join c 1cm above the outer edge of the shoulder. Below a band of Greek key or meander sits above a black band. The main body is in black with a dark brown/red band towards the upper and lower portions. Below two further bands of dark browm/red sit above large black rays eminanting from the predestal base up the body on a tan background. The black paint continues midway up the straight-sided pedestal, the remainder is tan/dark brown. The underside is unpainted. A capital 'B' is written in pencil on the base.,
Accession number: NCM 1921-17 | Temporal: | 399BC-200BC | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | ITALY? | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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