neck-amphora
- Museum number
- 1856,1226.34
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora.
(a) Type of Thetis bringing armour to Achilles. A youth on left, wreathed, with hair looped up and passed over ear, and a mantle in a doubled roll thrown over his left shoulder, holds out his right for a helmet which a woman offers him; she has also a shield with black device of a scorpion to left, and a long spear, and she wears a long chiton, himation, a radiated stephane, and a saccos which has a flap behind the left ear.
(b) Bearded man in himation, wearing a fillet with a vertical piece over the forehead, standing to left, resting right hand on staff.
Drawing of the best period. Purple wreath and fillet; brown inner markings. Edge of hair dotted. Eye in profile. Below a, pairs of maeanders set in alternate directions, separated by dotted cross squares; below b, a strip of key pattern.
- Production date
- 440BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 33.02 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc50)
- Condition
- Feet of youth in a missing. Surface, especially on right of a, discoloured by fire.
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1856,1226.34
