askos

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Object Type: askos
Museum number: 1814,0704.501
Description: Pottery: red-figured askos. (a) Bull galloping to right. (b) Bearded satyr advancing cautiously to left, with body bent and arms extended as if to seize something. Drawing of good period, but somewhat careless. Brown inner markings. Eye in profile.
Cultures/periods: Attic
Production date: 470BC-400BC
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Materials: pottery
Ware: Red Figure
Technique: painted
Dimensions: Height: 6.35 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (E732); Old Catalogue / A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (960)
Location: On display (G20a/dc13)
Subjects: satyr; mammal
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Peregrine Edward Towneley
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Charles Townley
Acquisition date: 1814
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1814,0704.501
Conservation: Treatment: 26 Jul 2000

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