amphora
- Museum number
- 1772,0320.18.+
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured amphora of Panathenaic shape.
Designs red on black ground, with white accessories. Round the lip, white laurel-wreath; on the neck, each side, laurel-wreath and tongue-pattern; below the handles, palmettes; below, all round, maeander.
(a) Offerings at a tomb: The tomb is painted white and stands on a base with white bands; on it is an amphora with a nude male figure moving to right, and various patterns, painted in black on red; on the shoulder hangs a white taenia. On the left is a female figure to right, with hair in a bunch, open cap radiated in front, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with a stripe down the side, and sandals, in right hand a wreath, in left a phiale containing fruit, and a taenia; above, a taenia. On the right is a youth to left, with white fillet and himation over left arm, in left hand a white staff, holding up a wreath to put on the amphora; before him is a taenia, and above him a white taenia. The ground-lines are indicated.
(b) Two ephebi confronted, each with staff and himation over left shoulder; between them is a Doric column, and above the one on the right hangs a taenia.
- Production date
- 350BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 62.23 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G73/dc50)
- Acquisition date
- 1772
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1772,0320.18.+
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1772,0320.18.*