amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1888,0208.56.o
Description: Two joining fragments of a Fikellura painted pottery neck-amphora. Shoulder, myrtle wreath. Belly, crescents.
School/style
Cultures/periods: South Ionian; Archaic Greek
Production date: 550 BC - 525 BC
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Tell Dafana
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 10 centimetres (as joined); Thickness: 0.30 centimetres; Width: 15 centimetres (as joined)
Curator's comments: BSA xxxic,13 (G 6), 14, 74. Attributed to the Mykonos Group With BM GR 1888,0206.54.e-f (previously registered as 1924,1201.1070 and 1076) and 1888,0208.54.h (previously registered as 1924,1201.1078).Original height of complete amphora 25 cm.
Bibliographic references: CVA British Museum 8 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 13, British Museum 8 (Pl. G. B. 577, 4); Petrie 1888 / Tanis. Part II. Nebesheh (Am) and Defenneh (Tahpanhes) (pl. xxxii, 2); Weber 2012 / Untersuchungen zur archaischen griechischen Keramik aus anderen ägyptischen Fundorten (TD 205)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0208.56.o
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1924,1201.1074 (previously reregistered); Miscellaneous number: 1924,1201.1075 (previously re-registered)
Joined objects: Associated Group: G16541 (4 objects)

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