amphora
- Museum number
- 1894,1101.475
- Description
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Pottery amphora in Bichrome V ware reconstructed from fragments; ovoid-globular body; cylindrical neck with an everted, rounded rim; ring base; two horizontal handles; buff slip, decorated in red and black paint with incised details; the central frieze of figures is framed below by lotus blossoms and above by registers of floral motifs and parallel lines; the central panel depicts feasting in a wood represented by three evenly spaced trees with birds in the branches; some of the figures are reclining under the trees, two are standing playing or holding musical instruments, one (perhaps a servant) carries a jug.
- Production date
- 600BC-450BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 22.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Belongs to the Amathus Style which is influenced by Attic Black Figure, especially in the use of incised details. See Raptou 1999 for its possible cultic significance and Stach 2007, 47 and fig. 10 for its place within CG and CA banquetting scenes on Cypriot vases.
Additional bibliography:
Des Gagniers J. 1972, 'Une fête champêtre sur une amphore d'Amathonte', Revue Archéologique, 53-6
Reyes A 1994, Archaic Cyprus. A study of the textual and archaeological evidence (Oxford), 1994, 111 and pl. 32.
Raptou E 1999, 'Une "fête champêtre" à Amathonte et le culte d'Héra à Chypre', RDAC, 207-221
Stach Y. 2007, ‘Bankettszenen in der Cypro-geometrischen und –archaischen Vasenmalerei als Beispiels für Akkulturation’, in ed. S. Rogge, Begegnungen. Materielle Kulturen auf Zypern bis in die römische Zeit. Schriften des Instituts für Interdisziplinäre Zypern-Studien 5, Münster, 39–64 (p. 6 and pl. 3).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1894,1101.475
