alabastron
- Museum number
- 1847,0806.53
- Description
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Pottery: black figure alabastron. Design black on drab ground, with accessories of purple, white and buff. Above the design, tongue-pattern and maeander; crenelle-pattern interspersed with dots, drab on black. Below, maeander, drab on black. On either side of the vase is an ear.
Frieze of four Maenads moving to right in pairs; the right hand one of each pair looks back. Each wears a long striped chiton with sleeves and purple spots above, over which is a nebris knotted in front, painted over in buff; each holds a large branch in right hand. The hair of the two on the left is gathered up under a band wound several times round the head, appearing in a tuft over the forehead, and a top-knot at the back of the head; that of the others is covered by a close cap, and falls over the neck, with a tuft in front.
- Production date
- 520BC-500BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 12.95 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Badly damaged; part broken away.
- Acquisition date
- 1847
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1847,0806.53
