neck-amphora
- Museum number
- 1772,0320.275
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora.
Later stage of strong style. Brown inner markings, and hair of dog. Wreath in brown outline. Eye in transition. Edge of hair dotted. Below a, sets of three maeanders alternate ways, separated by dotted cross squares; below b, key pattern.
(a) Anacreon (?), a bearded man wreathed with vine, walking to right, playing on the flutes; under his left arm he carries a crutch staff, at the top of which hangs a chelys; a mantle, rolled up, hangs at his back and over both arms; in front of him walks a rough-haired Spitz dog.
(b) An ephebos in a mantle, holding up on his left hand a kylix, moving to right, looking back and extending his right hand as if to the flute player in a; right foot in foreshortening.
- Production date
- 440BC-430BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 34.29 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
D'Hancarville iii, pl. 78; Panofka, Bild. ant. Leb. iv, 3, p. 6. Apparently by the same hand as BM Vase Ε314.
For similar subjects cf. BM Vases Ε266, E267, E314.
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc50)
- Acquisition date
- 1772
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1772,0320.275
