amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1888,0208.73.e
Description: Fragment of body of Clazomenian black-figure painted pottery amphora. Short tongues: four women dancers. Purple for slippers (worn by first and third women, the other two - as often in Clazomenian black figure ware - being barefoot); for two stripes on dark area below panel; on necking ring. White for flesh of women, dots on the incised fillets, stars on skirts.
School/style
Cultures/periods: North Ionian; Archaic Greek
Production date: 540 BC-530 BC
Production place: Made in: Clazomenae (?)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tell Dafana, "Qasr", east annex (C), chamber 19
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Diameter: 0.60 centimetres; Height: 16.80 centimetres; Width: 24.90 centimetres
Curator's comments: Reconstructed with BM GR 1888,0208.106.h and 1888,0208.77.b Findspot number '19' is pencilled on the item, while Findspot number '18' is pencilled on BM GR 1888,0208.106. Number B129.14 (part) is marked on the sherd, while the joined fragments are marked 125.4 and 125.14
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B125.14); CVA British Museum 8 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 13, British Museum 8 (Pl. GB 593, 2); Weber 2012 / Untersuchungen zur archaischen griechischen Keramik aus anderen ägyptischen Fundorten (TD 166)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0208.73.e
Joined objects: Joined Object Group: G16630 (3 objects)

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