amphora

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Object Type: amphora
Museum number: 1850,0227.49
Description: Pottery: Impasto amphora with a dark orange slip and red and white paint. The shoulder has interlaced palmettes and a cable band, a motif repeated below the main zones. The upper zone includes sphinxes, a goat leaping on to a ship's prow, a panther, horseman and lions. The lower zone has similar animals. The painting shows familiarity with both Phoenician and Corinthian styles.
Cultures/periods: Etruscan
Production date: 600BC-575BC
Production place: Made in: Italy
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Isis Tomb
Materials: pottery
Ware: Impasto
Technique: painted; slipped
Dimensions: Height: 76.20 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (H230); CVA British Museum 7 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 10, British Museum 7 (IVBa pl. 9, 3); Swaddling 1986 / Italian Iron Age artefacts in the British Museum : papers of the sixth British Museum Classical Colloquium (p. 419, 420)
Location: On display (G71/dc20)
Subjects: sphinx; boat/ship; equestrian; mammal
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Dr Emil Braun
Acquisition date: 1850
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1850,0227.49

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