amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1888,0208.88
Description: Fragment of neck of black figure painted pottery ovoid amphora. Painted decoration (circle between two vertical zigzag-lines) on neck. Shoulder, tongues. Purple for some - presumably alternate - tongues and on necking ring.
Cultures/periods: Attic; Archaic Greek
Production date: 575BC-550BC
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Tell Dafana
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Diameter: 10 centimetres; Height: 4.10 centimetres (max)
Bibliographic references: CVA British Museum 8 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 13, British Museum 8 (Pl. GB 609,10); Petrie 1888 / Tanis. Part II. Nebesheh (Am) and Defenneh (Tahpanhes) (p. 61 § 58, pl. xxxi, 8); Weber 2012 / Untersuchungen zur archaischen griechischen Keramik aus anderen ägyptischen Fundorten (TD 293)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0208.88

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