amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1888,0208.81.a
Description: Pottery: fragment (three sherds joined) of Clazomenian black-figure painted pottery amphora. Parts of two women in procession on A and of one on B: dividing band of alternate dots: parts of bull and lion confronted. Purple on skirt and on necks of bull and lion. White for feet of women.
Producer name
Cultures/periods: North Ionian; Archaic Greek
Production date: 550BC-525BC
Production place: Made in: Clazomenae (?)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tell Dafana
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 9.50 centimetres (max); Width: 11.50 centimetres (max)
Curator's comments: For the lion compare very closely Munich 570 (J. Sieveking and R. Hackl, die königliche Vasensammlung, pl. 20). BMC B. 115.6. BSA xlvii, 128-B.7.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B115.6); CVA British Museum 8 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 13, British Museum 8 (Pl. GB 587, 12); Weber 2012 / Untersuchungen zur archaischen griechischen Keramik aus anderen ägyptischen Fundorten (TD 120)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: mammal; procession
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0208.81.a

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