- Museum number
- 1927,0411.1
- Description
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Pottery neck-handled amphora with a detachable bronze lid, probably used as a grave-marker.
Clay: orange-buff clay, large white and brown grits, yellow wash, red-brown paint.
Shape: torus lip, tall flaring neck, plump ovoid body, tall ring foot; strap handles, each with two vertical grooves.
Decoration: Lip: zone of one-legged soldier-birds. Neck: zone of warriors, armed with two spears, sword, helmet, and Dipylon shield; dot rosettes in the field. Panel at handle level: complex triple meander encased on all four sides by simple meanders, with inner ancillaries, (A) zigzag above and to right, dotted lozenge chain below, (B) dotted lozenge chain above and below, zigzag to right. Shoulder: inverted double triangles, check pattern; five silhouette dogs chasing hare. Body: between meanders and dotted lozenge chains above and below, a figured scene: four pairs of warriors armed with helmet, three spears and Dipylon shield, alternating with quadriga groups each directed by a warrior and a charioteer, all with rectangular torso, and holding vertical spears. In the field, latticed lozenges, double axes, single zigzags. Below, latticed leaves between dotted lozenge chains. Around the foot, dotted double circles drawn with compass. Handles: dotted double circles down centre, paint in grooves, dots on edges.
- Production date
- 720BC-700BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 26.50 centimetres (of rim)
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Height: 76.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- CVA:
Attributed to the Anavysos Painter.
The choice and organisation of the linear ornament is closely paralleled on the pitcher from the cemetery at Anavysos, Athens 11411 (GGP 73, XIV.1, pl. 13c). A.W. Johnston, OJA 1 (1982), 1-7, reasonably suggests that the latticed torsos of the men on the chariots may represent non-metallic (leather?) corselets rather than shields.
Bibliography: H.B. Walters, BMQ 2 (1927-8), 16, pl. 8; Davison 101-2; GGP 73, XIV.3.
- Location
- On display (G13/dc1)
- Condition
- Nearly complete, mended.
- Acquisition date
- 1926
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1927,0411.1
