amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1888,0208.76.a
Description: Fragment of body of Clazomenian black-figure painted pottery broad amphora. Two ithyphallic satyrs and a maenad. Purple for beard, hair, nipple of first satyr: two purple stripes at the top of the dark area below. White for female flesh, dots on fillet, and rosettes on skirt. The maenad has a necklace of dots of the dark paint.
School/style
Cultures/periods: North Ionian; Archaic Greek
Production date: 530BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Clazomenae (?)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tell Dafana
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 18.60 centimetres (max); Width: 14.50 centimetres (max)
Curator's comments: BMC B.125.6. BSA xlvii, 131-C II.22.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B125.6); CVA British Museum 8 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 13, British Museum 8 (Pl. GB 588, 9); Weber 2012 / Untersuchungen zur archaischen griechischen Keramik aus anderen ägyptischen Fundorten (TD 150)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satyr; mythical figure/creature
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0208.76.a

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