neck-amphora
- Museum number
- 1914,0413.1
- Description
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Pottery neck-handled amphora.
Clay: orange-brown clay, white grits, airholes, dull brown-black paint.
Shape: torus lip, broad vertical neck, plump ovoid body, high ring foot; strap handles, to which plastic serpents are attached. Lip: single zigzag.Neck: panel of meander, double meander, and dotted lozenge chain. Shoulder: panel of small standing triangles, dotted lozenge chain, and inverted latticed triangles. Belly zone: five chariot groups, each with single horse and unaccompanied charioteer with long robe; file of eight warriors, each with Dipylon shield and two spears. Filling ornaments: outlined double axes, latticed lozenges, single zigzags. Below, zones of dotted lozenge chain alternating with meander, floating sigmas, and dogtooth. Dotted lozenges around foot. Handles: paint on serpents, small dotted lozenges in the field, lines at edges. Band inside rim.
- Production date
- 735BC-720BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 23 centimetres (of rim)
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Height: 59.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- CVA:
In the manner of the Birdseed Workshop, but influenced by the Subdipylon Group. By the same hand: the amphora Berlin 31046 (GGP 67, no. 16). The horses, with their stiff forelegs, exaggerated fetlocks and heavy hooves, are very like those on Erlangen 1458 (Davison fig. 77) by the Birdseed Painter, even though his characteristic bird files are absent here. Some affinity with the Subdipylon Group is also apparent in the shoulder panel, especially the dotted lozenges between upward- and downward-pointing triangles, which are very much in the Dipylon tradition.
Bibliography: Davison 67 no. 7, p. 70 and fig. 102; GGP 67, X.15 and p. 69; Rombos 472-3, no. 234.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Complete, mended.
- Acquisition date
- 1914
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1914,0413.1
