neck-amphora
- Museum number
- 1843,1103.98
- Description
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Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora. On the neck, palmette and lotus pattern, differing from the usual form, the lotus-flowers larger than the palmettes.
(a) Apollo Citharoedos to right, beardless, with long tresses, fillet, long white chiton, and himation wound round the body, with alternate black embroidered and purple stripes, divided by crenellated border, playing on the chelys. Facing him is Artemis, with long tresses, mitra, long, sleeved chiton, purple above and diapered below, quiver slung at back, in left hand bow and two arrows, right hand raised to mouth.
(b) Apollo Citharoedos to right, bearded, with long hair, long white chiton, and embroidered himation, playing with plectrum on the chelys, from which hangs embroidered drapery. On either side of him is a Doric column, surmounted by a Sphinx looking back, with wings recurved.
Under the handles, a design roughly representing a human face with two eyes and nose indicated, branching out on either side in palmettes and volutes, with a lotus-flower inverted below.
- Production date
- 550BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 39.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Él. Cér. ii., pl. 11, p. 30; Micali, Storia, pl. 84, 1; Overbeck, Kunstmyth. (Apollo), p. 42, and Atlas, xix. 14; Murray, Handbook of Gk. Archaeology, p. 87.
For the crenallated border, cf. BM Vase Β147. For side B, cf. BM Vase Β139.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1843
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1843,1103.98