alabastron
- Museum number
- 1864,1007.202
- Description
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Pottery: Alabastron. Design partly worn away, black on drab ground, with purple accessories; above, palmettes. On either side of the vase are ears. A quadriga half-turned to left, in which is a warrior with high-crested helmet and shield with three pellets as device; he is pursuing another, who retreats to left, looking back; he is fully armed, with chlamys over shoulders and shield with device of bull's head. In the field, imitation inscriptions.
- Production date
- 500BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 53 millimetres
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Height: 168 millimetres
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Weight: 242 grammes
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Width: 52 millimetres
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Depth: 53 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Attributed to Fikellura grave 155, based on evidence from Biliotti's Kamiros diary, Kamiros tomb list, British Museum register, departmental Kamiros index card. Description in Biliotti's Kamiros diary: Alabastron cream colour ground black figures accessories crimson two warriors fighting one of them in a cart, inscriptions or names which I have not been able to make out (1 entire). No marking of grave number visible on the object itself.
Attributions to find-spots are based on (1) Alfred Biliotti’s diary kept during excavations at Kamiros between November 1863 and June 1864, which records the contents of two votive deposits and over 300 graves; (2) entries in the Museum Register, often stipulating the find-spots of individual objects excavated by Biliotti; (3) the Kamiros tomb list, produced around the same time as his entries in the Museum Register. It lists the contents of each grave and votive deposit, along with their corresponding registration numbers; (4) the Kamiros index cards, written by Donald Bailey in the 1960’s. These mainly record the contents of graves from the Fikellura cemetery and are organised according to tomb group. All archives are kept in the Department of Greece and Rome. In addition, Reynold Higgins’ Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1954) has been checked for attributions to the Fikellura cemetery.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1864,1007.202
