amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1836,0224.30
Description: Pottery: black-figured amphora. Designs black on red panels, with borders of lotus-buds along the top; accessories of white and purple. (a) Dionysos to right, bearded, with long hair and ivy-wreath; he wears a long chiton and striped embroidered himation; in his right hand is a cantharos, in left a vine-branch. On either side is a tall object of the shape of a caduceus; these may denote kamakes or vine-poles. (b) Similar to (a), except that Dionysos holds the vine-branch in his right hand, and a keras in his left; his chiton is embroidered with purple spots, his himation with white rosettes. On the bottom, incised characters.
Cultures/periods: Archaic Greek; Attic
Production date: 530BC-510BC
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Vulci
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 27.94 centimetres
Curator's comments: BM Cat. Vases For the incised characters, see Old Catalogue, pl. B596.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B180); Old Catalogue / A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (596); CVA British Museum 3 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3 (III H e Pl. 45, 3)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Edmé Antoine Durand (sale); Purchased through: Peter Oluf Brøndsted
Acquisition date: 1836
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1836,0224.30

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