neck-amphora

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Object Type: neck-amphora
Museum number: 1888,0208.53.b
Description: Fragment of Fikellura painted neck-amphora. Hind leg of hare; crescents.
School/style: Lion group
Cultures/periods: South Ionian; Archaic Greek
Production date: 575BC-550BC
Production place: Made in: Miletus (?)
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Egypt Exploration Fund
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Tell Dafana, "Qasr", east annex (G), chamber 29 (probably)
Materials: pottery
Ware: Fikellura
Technique: painted
Dimensions: Height: 5.50 centimetres (as joined); Thickness: 0.30 centimetres; Width: 7.70 centimetres (as joined)
Curator's comments: According to the Register, 12 fragments registered under the number 1888,0208.53 were kept in a bag marked 'all one vase, 29'. Most, or possibly all, of the 14 fragments today registered under this number were thus found in the Qasr, chamber 29.
Bibliographic references: CVA British Museum 8 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 13, British Museum 8 (Pl. GB 575, 11.); Weber 2012 / Untersuchungen zur archaischen griechischen Keramik aus anderen ägyptischen Fundorten (TD 200); Leclère and Spencer 2014 / Tell Dafana Reconsidered: The Archaeology of an Egyptian Frontier Town (p.211)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: mammal
Acquisition name: Donated by: Egypt Exploration Fund
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0208.53.b
Joined objects: Joined Object Group: G16628 (2 objects)

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