amphoriskos
- Museum number
- 1894,1101.123
- Description
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Attic black gloss miniature double-handled vase (amphoriskos) with impressed decoration; wheel-made; ovoid body on a narrow moulded foot; narrow neck with a flaring mouth and everted rim; pair of opposing handles arching from the shoulder to the junction of the neck and body; made of buff clay covered with a black lustrous slip (worn in places); impressed decoration: tongues around the shoulder, a meander around the mid-point of the body, with leaf motivs above and below the latter.
- Production date
- 450 BC-400 BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 20.32 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For comparisons see: Agora XII, 156 (with further references); also Hayes 1984, 26 no. 40 (though with somewhat different decoration, including gouging).
Bibliography:
Hayes J. 1984, Greek and Italian Black-Gloss wares and related wares in the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto, 1984), no. 40 p. 26 (though with somewhat different decoration, including gouging).
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc12)
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1894,1101.123
