amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1824,0501.2
Description: Pottery: black-figured amphora. Designs in black on buff panels all down the vase, with accessories of white; rather coarse style. On the neck, lotus-flowers with tendrils; on the shoulder, tongue-pattern. (a) A hippocamp, or sea-horse to right, with horse's head and fore-paws, long tail, and small pectoral and dorsal fins; scales indicated in white, (b) A sea-lion to right, with lion's head and fore-paws, and open mouth; the rest as the seahorse.
Cultures/periods: Etrusco-Campanian; Archaic Period (Etruscan); Classical Period (Etruscan)
Production date: 500BC-470BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Campania (probably)
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 21.90 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B68); Old Catalogue / A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (342)
Location: On display (G71/dc9)
Subjects: classical mythological figure/creature; hippocampus
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1824
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1824,0501.2
Conservation

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