amphora;
burial-urn(probably)
- Museum number
- 1978,0701.8
- Description
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Pottery neck-handled amphora; the shape suggests that it was probably used for a male burial.
Clay: orange-buff clay, white grits, lustrous brown-black paint.
Shape: torus lip, tall concave neck, ovoid body, disc foot; strap handles.
Decoration: Light ground. Bands inside and outside lip, and at base of neck. Shoulder: two sets of nine compass-drawn concentric circles; band between lines below. Three lines around lower body. Handles: intersecting diagonal lines, rings around lower roots.
- Production date
- 975BC-950BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 15.50 centimetres
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Diameter: 26.90 centimetres
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Height: 42.20 centimetres
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Weight: 5 kilograms
- Curator's comments
- Desborough, PGP 8-9, class A 1: ‘not … making an appearance in any of the latest tomb groups’ (p. 11). Slightly earlier, with a plumper body, is a similar amphora of this light-ground class with full circles on the shoulder, from among the Attic exports found in the MPG deposit in the debris of the Toumba building at Lefkandi: Lemos, PGA 57, pl. 81.4.
- Location
- On display (G13/dc1)
- Condition
- Complete
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1850
- Acquisition notes
- Previously unregistered.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1978,0701.8