neck-amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1836,0224.214
Description: Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora. (a) In the centre, a nude youth on horseback, seen from the front, with two spears in right hand. On either side, facing him, is a female figure with long hair, long chiton, and himation with purple spots; each holds out a hand muffled in drapery. (b) A quadriga seen from the front; in it a charioteer in long white chiton, holding goad, and a warrior with visored helmet and two spears.
Cultures/periods: Archaic Greek (late); Attic
Production date: 500BC-480BC
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Vulci
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 44.45 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B272); Old Catalogue / A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (529); CVA British Museum 4 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 5, British Museum 4 (III H e Pl. 67, 2)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: charioteer/chariot; equestrian; warrior
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Edmé Antoine Durand (sale); Purchased through: Peter Oluf Brøndsted
Acquisition date: 1836
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1836,0224.214

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