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amphora(?); hydria(?)

Object Type: amphora (?); hydria (?)
Museum number: 1888,0208.25
Description: 5 joined fragments of belly of amphora or hydria. Clay fired a pale brown. Design black and purple, with incised lines, on drab ground. Two long-skirted figures, one on each side of a tripod. Purple for legs of tripod. The figure on the right has a girdle incised with a maeander. Some lime inclusions.
Cultures/periods: East Greek; East Dorian (?); Archaic Greek
Production date: 550BC-525BC (presumably)
Production place: Made in: Rhodes (?)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tell Dafana
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Diameter: 26 centimetres (of original, circa); Height: 10 centimetres (max); Width: 15.50 centimetres (max)
Curator's comments: According to Cook in the British Museum's CVA, there is no known comparable piece. Cook believed that the "extraordinary incompetence of the drawing" suggested that the piece "was made in the locality of Tell Dafana"; however, NAA by Hans Mommsen (Bonn) indicates that the piece was made in the same place as most of the situlae.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B106.15); CVA British Museum 8 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 13, British Museum 8 (Pl. GB 605, 6 (and Pl. GB 598, 10)); Schlotzhauer & Villing 2006 / East Greek Pottery from Naukratis: The Current State of Research (p.55 Table 1); Weber 2012 / Untersuchungen zur archaischen griechischen Keramik aus anderen ägyptischen Fundorten (TD 283)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0208.25
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