neck-amphora

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Object Type: neck-amphora
Museum number: 1772,0320.339
Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. (a) Woman holding taenia in right. She wears chiton and himation, and her hair is looped up with a fillet. (b) Two draped Ephebi. The one on left rests on staff, the other faces to front, but turns head towards him. Both wear fillets with upright rays. Above (a), a lion to left, raising right paw; above (b), a goat running to right. Drawing coarse. Below the designs, egg moulding; below the handles, a double palmette with tendrils.
Producer name: Attributed to: The Painter of the Naples Hydriskai
Cultures/periods: Attic
Production date: 440BC-420BC
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Materials: pottery
Ware: Red Figure
Technique: painted
Dimensions: Height: 21.59 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (E348); Old Catalogue / A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (817); CVA British Museum 5 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5 (III Ic Pl.68,3)
Location: On display (G20a/dc50)
Subjects: mammal
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Sir William Hamilton
Acquisition date: 1772
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1772,0320.339
Conservation: Treatment: 26 Jul 2000

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