neck-amphora
- Museum number
- 1938,0318.1
- Description
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Etruscan black figured pottery neck-amphora decorated with a frieze of five sirens around the body, and another of four birds on the shoulder, with a petal design on the neck. The vase has a flaring foot, circular mouth, ledge rim and two handles marked with two vertical grooves, broken and partially reconstructed and restored, worn and chipped in places, and there are traces of a white and red overpainting. fine clay; fired light brownish; slip blackish/black; overlay of white.
- Production date
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520BC-500BC
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520BC-510BC (Swaddling)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 27 centimetres
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Height: 40.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Included in N. Spivey (1987) The Micali Painter, No. 166.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2011, Jun-Oct, Ulsan Museum, Ulsan, South Korea, 'Fantastic Creatures'.
2012, Jan-Apr, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 'Fantastic Creatures'
2014, 22 Mar - 30 Sept, Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca e della Citta di Cortona, Italy, La Gran Bretagna e gli Etruschi
- Condition
- restored from several fragments; encrustations on inside of neck.
- Acquisition date
- 1938
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1938,0318.1
