askos

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Object Type
Museum number: 1873,0820.522
Description: Painted terracotta vessel (askos) with a figure of Scylla with a fish-tail and dogs issuing from her hips. It was originally painted in vivid colours, with a horse-headed sea-monster (hippocamp) on either side.
Cultures/periods: Apulian (local); Daunian
Production date: 310BC-300BC
Production place: Made in: Canosa di Puglia
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Bolsena
Materials
Technique: painted; moulded
Dimensions: Height: 34.29 centimetres; Length: 30.48 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Terracotta / Catalogue of Terracottas in the British Museum (D203); CVA British Museum 7 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 10, British Museum 7 (pl. 17, 3); Swaddling 1986 / Italian Iron Age artefacts in the British Museum : papers of the sixth British Museum Classical Colloquium (p. 215)
Location: On display (G71/dc8)
Subjects: mythical figure/creature; hippocampus
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1873
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1873,0820.522

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