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amphora

• Object type

  • amphora

• Museum number

  1772,0320.213

• Description

  Pottery: red-figured amphora of Panathenaic shape.
  (a) A reveller (?). A nude wreathed ephebos walks with bent knees to right, looking back, and holding out by one handle in his right a large diota. Over his left shoulder he carries a knotted staff. A mantle is festooned at his back, one end hanging over the end of his staff, the other end passing over his left elbow.
  (b) A similar figure, also walking to right and looking back, as he pours wine on the ground from an oinochoe in his right hand: with his left arm he clasps to his chest a large diota, around which a black wreath is painted, hanging from the handles down the body: in his hand he carries a cotyle painted in black silhouette. Each figure has whiskers.
  Large severe style. Purple wreaths and wine. Brown inner markings and whiskers. Eye in archaic type, with inner angle open. Hair edged with dots. Each design is enclosed within a panel composed of four double red lines, and bounded at the top by a band of tongue. Around the neck, a linked lotus bud pattern: around the bottom of the body, rays.

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• Producer name

  • Attributed to: The Flying-Angel Painter

• Culture/period

  • Attic

• Date

  • 500BC-480BC

• Production place

  • Made in: Attica
  • (Europe,Greece,Attica (Greece))

• Materials

  • pottery

• Ware

  • Red figure

• Technique

  • painted

• Dimensions

  • Height: 35.56 centimetres

• Bibliography

  • Old Catalogue 723
  • Vase E259
  • CVA British Museum 3 III Ic Pl. 5, 2

• Location

  On display: G20a/dc6

• Condition

  Broken, but designs intact: one handle restored.

• Acquisition name

  • Purchased from: Sir William Hamilton

• Department

  Greek & Roman Antiquities

• Registration number

  1772,0320.213