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amphora

Object Type
Museum number: 1888,0208.113.d
Description: Sherd of Clazomenian black-figure painted pottery broad amphora (Urla Group). (a) parts of three nude male figures to right dancing; between them an auletris to left playing the double flute; (b) head of a bearded male, dancing and confronted by two auletris; joined to another sherd.
Cultures/periods: East Greek; Archaic Greek
Production date: 540 BC-530 BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Clazomenae (?)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tell Dafana
Materials
Ware
Technique: incised; painted
Dimensions: Height: 17.78 centimetres
Curator's comments: reconstructed with BM GR 1888,0208.76.b, 1888,0208.108, 1888, 0208.109 Cook (CVA BM 8, p. 26) suggests that BM GR 1888.0208.77.c may join
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B123); CVA British Museum 8 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 13, British Museum 8 (Pl. GB 592, 1-2); Weber 2012 / Untersuchungen zur archaischen griechischen Keramik aus anderen ägyptischen Fundorten (TD 163)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: dance; music
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0208.113.d
Joined objects: Joined Object Group: G16259 (3 objects); Associated Group: G16261 (6 objects)