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amphora
Object Type
amphora
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
Attributed to:
The Petrie Painter
Cultures/periods
North Ionian
Archaic Greek
Production date
530BC
(circa)
Production place
Made in:
Clazomenae
(?)
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Egypt Exploration Fund
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Tell Dafana
, "Qasr", east annex (G), chamber 29
Materials
pottery
Ware
Black Figure
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
musician
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Egypt Exploration Fund
Acquisition date
1888
Department
Greek and Roman
Registration number
1888,0208.115