amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1888,0208.76.c
Description: Two joining fragments of the upper part of body of broad Clazomenian black figure painted pottery amphora. Naked male and part of another figure. Purple for hair and beard. The right-hand figure has eyes for nipples, but is probably an ordinary komast.
School/style
Cultures/periods: North Ionian; Archaic Greek
Production date: 550BC-500BC (possibly circa 530 BC (S.Weber))
Production place: Made in: Clazomenae (?)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Tell Dafana
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 7.50 centimetres (as joined); Thickness: 0.40 centimetres (max); Width: 5.80 centimetres (max)
Curator's comments: Perhaps from the same pot as BM GR 1888.0208.109 (BM CVA 8 pl. GB 592.1-2) BSA xlvii, 131-CII.21.
Bibliographic references: CVA British Museum 8 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 13, British Museum 8 (Pl. GB 590, 19); Weber 2012 / Untersuchungen zur archaischen griechischen Keramik aus anderen ägyptischen Fundorten (TD 162)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0208.76.c
Joined objects: Associated Group: G16261 (6 objects)

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