amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1924,1201.1052
Description: Shoulder sherd of Milesian Fikellura pottery amphora; interior reserved; exterior, white slip: row of black painted addorsed ivy leaves with dots in between above dividing band consisting of row of short strokes; at junction of shoulder and body, traces of undetermined black painted decorative pattern.
Cultures/periods: East Greek; Archaic Greek
Production date: 560BC-525BC
Production place: Made in: Miletus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Naukratis (?)
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; slipped
Dimensions: Height: 5.50 centimetres; Thickness: 0.50 centimetres; Width: 6.90 centimetres
Curator's comments: Cook (1933-1934) suggests that the decorative pattern at the bottom of the sherd is perhaps the ear and tail of a hare on the body.
Bibliographic references: CVA British Museum 8 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 13, British Museum 8 (8, no. 6); Cook 1933-1934 / Fikellura Pottery (p. 52, no. Z8); Villing et al 2013-2015 / Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt (GF.067)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1924,1201.1052

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