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krater
Object Type
krater
Museum number
1924,1201.39
Description
Rim and neck sherd of Laconian black-glazed pottery krater; interior glazed black; exterior: glazed black on top of rim and neck; outside and underside of rim slipped white; on outside painted decoration consisting of black maeander pattern between rows of single dots.
Cultures/periods
Laconian
(III)
Archaic Greek
Production date
600BC-575BC
(circa)
Production place
Made in:
Laconia (Greece)
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Egypt Exploration Fund
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Naukratis
Materials
pottery
Ware
Black Glaze
Technique
slipped
painted
Dimensions
Diameter:
22 centimetres
(circa (rim))
Height:
3.90 centimetres
Thickness:
1.30 centimetres
Width:
7.10 centimetres
Curator's comments
The sherd belongs to the same vessel as Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology NA198. The sherd belongs in Stibbe's Group E, the group of kraters with geometric rim ornaments only (Stibbe, 1989, 33).
Bibliographic references
Stibbe 1989 / Laconian Mixing Bowls. A history of the Krater Lakonikos from the 7th to the 5th century BC
(p. 103)
Villing et al 2013-2015 / Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt
(GC.43)
(phase 3)
Location
Not on display
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Egypt Exploration Fund
Department
Greek and Roman
Registration number
1924,1201.39