Carlotta - the museum database

NM Ant 2128 :: alabastron

Object description: Broad lip, sloping inwards; short, narrow neck; small lug handle below lip; elongated, ovoid body; rounded base, flattened centre with small protuberance. Buff clay; lustrous, buff slip; lustrous, black paint, largely misfired to red; added red. Inside of mouth painted; one broad band surrounded by three thin ones on lip top; dots on lip edge; tongues on neck; horizontal strokes on handle; narrow band above frieze; large frieze with lion, his body towards the right, head turned backwards to the left - added red and incised lines marking details and incised and non-incised rosettes, blobs and dots as filling ornaments in the area surrounding the lion; group of bands below frieze; one thin and one broad band encircling bottom centre.

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