amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1888,0208.122.b
Description: Fragment of body of Attic black figure painted pottery amphora. Lotus flower: draped figure.
Cultures/periods: Attic; Archaic Greek
Production date: 540 BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Tell Dafana
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 8 centimetres (max); Thickness: 0.80 centimetres; Width: 6.90 centimetres
Bibliographic references: CVA British Museum 8 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 13, British Museum 8 (p. 58, X.21); Weber 2012 / Untersuchungen zur archaischen griechischen Keramik aus anderen ägyptischen Fundorten (TD 63)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0208.122.b

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