amphora

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Object Type: amphora
Museum number: 1888,0208.78.b
Description: Fragment of body of Clazomenian black-figure painted pottery amphora: leg of male to right, within panel. The clay is fired rather pale.
Producer name: Attributed to: The Petrie Painter
Cultures/periods: East Greek; Archaic Greek
Production date: 550BC-530BC
Production place: Made in: Clazomenae (historic) (?)
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Egypt Exploration Fund
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tell Dafana, "Qasr", east annex (C), chamber 19 A, bench on west side
Materials: pottery
Ware: Black Figure
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 15 centimetres (max); Width: 10 centimetres (max)
Curator's comments: Findspot number '19A W' scratched on the item
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B115.3); CVA British Museum 8 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 13, British Museum 8 (Pl. GB. 589, 15); Weber 2012 / Untersuchungen zur archaischen griechischen Keramik aus anderen ägyptischen Fundorten (TD 235); Leclère and Spencer 2014 / Tell Dafana Reconsidered: The Archaeology of an Egyptian Frontier Town (p.208)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: Donated by: Egypt Exploration Fund
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0208.78.b

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