neck-amphora
- Museum number
- 1977,1207.3
- Description
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Pottery neck-handled amphora.
Clay: orange-buff clay, large white grits, lustrous brown-black paint.
Shape: torus lip, vertical neck, slim conical body, ring foot; strap handles.
Decoration: Dark ground. Dots between lines on lip. Neck: reserved panel, meander with lozenge chains above and below. Body: zones of lozenge chain and single zigzag. Below, eight sets of triple reserved bands. Handles barred.
- Production date
- 750BC-735BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 15.60 centimetres (of rim)
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Height: 47.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- CVA:
For the shape cf. Ker. V.1, 225, pl. 33, no. 377 from the LG Ib grave 24 (= GGP pl. 10a).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- One handle broken off, surface worn.
- Acquisition notes
- Found unregistered; acquired before 1851.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1977,1207.3