bowl

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Object Type
Museum number: 1836,0224.256
Description: Pottery bowl. Design black on red ground, with incised lines and purple accessories. Frieze of animals: Lion walking to right, with left paw raised; Siren to right looking back, with long tresses, fillet, and wings outspread; lion walking to left; cock to right, and hen to right looking back at the cock.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 500BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Vulci
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Diameter: 5.80 centimetres; Height: 9.10 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B367); Old Catalogue / A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (696)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: siren; bird; mammal
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Edmé Antoine Durand (sale); Purchased through: Peter Oluf Brøndsted
Acquisition date: 1836
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1836,0224.256

Free entry