alabastron
- Museum number
- 1875,0309.24
- Description
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Pottery: White-ground alabastron. Design in black, somewhat faded, roughly painted in outline on a drab ground.
A figure (perhaps Memnon) to right, looking to left, with black face; he is attired as an archer, in sleeved jerkin, linen cuirass, and anaxyrides (trousers), all embroidered, in right hand a double-headed axe, over left arm a garment with maeander-border and fringe. On the left is a table, on the right a palm-tree, roughly drawn.
- Production date
- 480BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 16 centimetres
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Weight: 157 grammes
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Width: 5.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Naukratis I. (C. Smith), p. 51; Corey, Amaz. Ant. Fig. p. 90.
BM Vase B673 has many points of resemblance, though the figure on that vase is apparently female. An almost identical vase is engraved by Froehner in his Deux peintures de Vases Grecs, p. 16, belonging to the Μusée de Compiegne. Cf. also Athen. Mittheil. xiv. (1889), p. 41 ff.
- Location
- On display (G35/dc15)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2023 4 May - 13 Aug, London, BM, G35, Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece
2015, 26 Mar-5 Jul, The British Museum, Defining Beauty: the body in ancient Greek art.
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1875,0309.24
