amphora
- Museum number
- 1982,0729.313
- Description
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Pottery amphora in White Painted ware; wheel-made; globular-biconical body on a high, splaying foot (concave underneath); wider cylindrical neck, slightly conical in profile, with a flat, everted rim (chipped); ridge at junction of body and neck; opposing strap handles from shoulder to rim, arching outwards; orange-buff clay with a cream slip (much eroded), decorated in black paint rather poorly executed and also much eroded in places: a single band around the junction of body and neck with on and below two below the inside of the rim, solid foot, ladder pattern on the handles, short strokes on the rim.
- Production date
- 900BC-750BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 13.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The number '198' in blue pencil seems to refer to the original find context. See Bailey, Op. Ath. VI (1965), pp. 5-13 for details of the Hake-Kitchener excavations.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1982
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1982,0729.313
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 328-1883 (V&A number)
