amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1888,0208.115
Description: Fragment of Clazomenian black-figure painted pottery slim amphora. Draped man carrying staff, man playing flute (?). Purple for hair and beard of draped man, in the spaces down the middle of his sleeve, in the band near the bottom of his skirt, and as blobs alternating with the white crosses on his skirt; for the hair of the other man, on his loin-cloth, as a stripe up the front of his belly. An incised star on the shoulder of this man.
Producer name
Cultures/periods: North Ionian; Archaic Greek
Production date: 530BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Clazomenae (?)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tell Dafana, "Qasr", east annex (G), chamber 29
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 11 centimetres (max); Width: 12.30 centimetres (max)
Curator's comments: BMC B.115.5. Jdl 1895, 41 fig. 4 (Dümmler mistook for a beard the back hair of the second man). BSA xlvii, 129-B.18. BM Cat. Vases The purple-bordered loin-cloth of one of the men is a distinctly Egyptian form of dress.; Findspot number '29' pencilled on the item
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B115.5); CVA British Museum 8 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 13, British Museum 8 (Pl. GB 587, 11); Weber 2012 / Untersuchungen zur archaischen griechischen Keramik aus anderen ägyptischen Fundorten (TD 126); Leclère and Spencer 2014 / Tell Dafana Reconsidered: The Archaeology of an Egyptian Frontier Town (p.211)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0208.115

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