amphoriskos
- Museum number
- 1855,1220.1
- Description
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Pottery amphoriskos.
Clay: brown clay, small mica, semilustrous brown-black paint.
Shape: slightly oblique lip, dented; squat globular body, broad ring foot; vertical strap handles on the shoulder.
Decoration: Dark ground. Reserved panel between handles: double zigzag between lines. Triple reserved band below. Handles barred. Broad band inside rim.
- Production date
- 800BC-750BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 9 centimetres (of rim)
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Height: 10.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- CVA:
: A non-Attic shape of Euboeo-Cycladic origin (GGP 153-6) that Melos shares with Naxos (N. Kourou, Anaskaphes Naxou, to Notio Nekrotapheio tes Naxous kata te geometrike periodo [Athens, 1999], 31-3, nos. 3-4), assuming Atticising decoration in MG. It survives into Melian LG with a taller neck (GGP 184, n.6).
Bibliography: GGP 170-1, pl. 34.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Rim chipped, worn.
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1855,1220.1
