neck-amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1888,0208.49
Description: Reconstructed painted pottery Fikellura neck-amphora. On neck network pattern, triple cable; on shoulder on each side a frieze; (a) two lions attacking a bull, one with teeth fixed in hindquarters; deer to left, cut short at end of panel; (b) two wolves about to attack a deer; on the body, between borders of guilloche and crescents is a frieze of wolves pursuing hares; wolf and two hares alternating; in the field are dots. Purple on rump, shoulder, and sometimes belly of animals; on occasional tongues of shoulder.
Producer name
School/style
Cultures/periods: South Ionian; Archaic Greek
Production date: 575BC-550BC
Production place: Made in: Miletus (?)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tell Dafana
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 29.70 centimetres (as made up)
Curator's comments: By the same painter as BM GR 1888,0208.54b (S. Weber) Compare the rim fragment from Miletus inv.Nr. K.91.139.2
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B119); CVA British Museum 8 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 13, British Museum 8 (Pl. GB 568, 2 (and Pl. GB 570)); Petrie 1888 / Tanis. Part II. Nebesheh (Am) and Defenneh (Tahpanhes) (p. 62 § 59, p. 63 § 60, pl. xxviii, 1); Weber 2012 / Untersuchungen zur archaischen griechischen Keramik aus anderen ägyptischen Fundorten (TD 194)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Missing handles, foot, various fragments.
Subjects: mammal; animal-fighting
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0208.49

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