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Object Type
Museum number: 1924,1201.1113
Description: Rim and body sherd of pottery plate with offset horizontal rim; white slip and black-brown paint on inside and outside; outside, bands; inside, bands of hook meanders, broad paint bands, lotus flower and bud frieze; joined to another fragment. Highly micaceous brown-grey clay with a fair amount of small to medium sized lime inclusions and some dark particles (Munsell 5YR6/3-4).
Cultures/periods: South Ionian; Archaic Greek
Production date: 6thC BC(early)
Production place: Made in: Ionia (Greece)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Naukratis
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 9 centimetres (unjoined fragment)
Curator's comments: Analysed with NAA by H. Mommsen, sample Nauk 8 (forms a pair with sample Emec 31)- cf. R. Attula, "Archaic Greek Plates from the Apollo Sanctuary at Emecik, Knidia. Results and Questions Concerning Dorian Pottery Production", in A. Villing & U. Schlotzhauer (eds.), Naukratis: Greek Diversity in Egypt. Studies on East Greek pottery and exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean (British Museum Research Publication 162; London: British Museum, 2006), p. 89-90, cat. no. 11, fig. 14; Schlotzhauer & Villing 2006, p. 56.; Joins 1886,0401.1263.
Bibliographic references: Schlotzhauer & Villing 2006 / East Greek Pottery from Naukratis: The Current State of Research (p. 56.); Attula 2006 / Archaic Greek Plates from the Apollo Sanctuary at Emecik, Knidia (p.89 fig.14, p.90 cat.no.11, No.41); Villing et al 2013-2015 / Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt (GO.722); Schlotzhauer 2012 / Untersuchungen zur archaischen griechischen Keramik aus Naukratis (p. 151-2, Nau 121, pl. 26e-f)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1924
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1924,1201.1113
Joined objects: Joined Object Group: G16348 (2 objects)

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