amphora
- Museum number
- 1867,0506.44
- Description
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One-piece black-figure amphora. Clay coarse and fired (imperfectly) lightish brown; paint reddish-brown, rather dull and roughly painted. Designs black on buff panels, with incised lines for inner markings only; borders of maeander and rude tongue-pattern above. (a) A horseman to left, bearded, with chlamys flying behind and short chiton; his saddle has an ornamental border, (b) A lion rushing to left, with open mouth, the hide indicated by incised markings.
- Production date
- 525BC-500BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 33.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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CVA British Museum 8
The trappings of the horse imitate Clazomenian (e.g. Pl. GB 585, 1). For the lion compare Clazomenian sarcophagi (e.g. in a debased Wild Goat Style Pl. GB 611, and in a more careful 'black figure' style Dresden 1643 - BSA xlvii, 140 fig. 6; see also there p. 140 n. 72). Details of the shape and the reservation at the base recall the Knipovitch class, which also is related to Clazomenian (BSA xlvii, 136-8). Beazley has pointed out (Etruscan Vase-painting, 14) that this amphora is by the same hand as Yale 230 (P. V. C. Baur, Catalogue of the R. D. Stoddard Collection, 140, figs. 520-6); and D. von Bothmer has added - for reasons not obvious from photographs - a third one-piece amphora in New York (Metropolitan Museum Bulletin, N.S., viii - Nov. 1949, 93-94)-BMC B.21.
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BM Cat. Vases
Dumont and Chaplain, p. 317, n. 4.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1867,0506.44
