amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1894,1101.310
Description: Wild Goat style pottery amphora from East Greece (North Ionia); ovoid body on a raised solid base; wide cylindrical neck with a flat, everted rim; pair of opposing double-rib handles from shoulder to below rim; buff clay and similar slip, decorated with red-brown and white paint: bands on the lower body, junction of neck and body and on rim; a guilloche pattern with white infill on the neck; on the shoulder on each side is a large leaping he-goat painted in silhouette, with the face in outline; long elongated body with rear end in the air; his head faces backwards; spirals an dots in the field around the animal; slip and paint very worn in places, especially the lower part of the vase: one of the goat figures is poorly preserved.
Cultures/periods: East Greek; Archaic Greek
Production date: 575BC-550BC
Production place: Made in: North Ionia
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amathus, Site E, tomb 106
Materials
Ware
Technique: wheel-made; slipped; painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 12.30 centimetres (mouth); Height: 28 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Murray, Smith and Walters 1900 / Excavations in Cyprus (p. 120, Tomb 106; p. 105 & fig. 151, no. 5); Gjerstad et al. GGAPC / Greek Geometric and Archaic pottery found in Cyprus (p. 36, no. 175)
Location: On display (G72/dc14)
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Funder name
Acquisition date: 1894
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1894,1101.310

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