amphora
- Museum number
- 1977,1207.6
- Description
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Belly-handled pottery amphora.
Clay: orange-buff clay, white grits, lustrous brown-black paint.
Shape: everted lip, flat above, ridge below; concave neck, globular, round handles.
Decoration: Dark ground. Neck: zone of quintuple zigzag between lines. Belly: two lateral metopes, quintuple concentric circles with central reserved cross and showing compass point, dot rosettes in the corners. In central panel: (A) vertical meander and column of chevron; (B) meander between columns of diagonal bars, triple vertical zigzag to left only. Lower body: one triple reserved band preserved. Handles: curved stripes enclosing diagonal bars; two dot rosettes in spaces above, stacked triangles below.
- Production date
- 850BC-800BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 17 centimetres (of rim)
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Height: 47.10 centimetres (preserved)
- Curator's comments
- CVA:
The closest parallel is an Attic export to Thera: E. Pfuhl, AM 1903, 179 (amphora from grave 29 (72) 1, Beilage 24.3. Perhaps because of this vessel’s relatively modest size, single handles are substituted for the more usual double ‘bucranium’ type, e.g. CVA Athens 5, pls. 94-9.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Base missing
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1850
- Acquisition notes
- Previously unregistered.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1977,1207.6