amphora
- Museum number
- 1982,0729.443
- Description
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Large pottery amphora in White Painted ware; wheel-made; ovoid-piriform body on a ring base; wide, slightly concave neck flaring to an everted rim; pair of opposing rectangular-sectioned handles from shoulder to rim; buff clay and (?) slip, decorated with matt brown-black paint (very faded): banded decoration on the body and neck, geometrical motifs (St. Andrew's cross, filled lozenge etc) in panels on the neck; surface very worn and encrusted.
- Production date
- 900BC-700BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 47.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The number 32 pencilled on the body may refer to the original excavations, but this is uncertain. See D. Bailey, Op. Ath. VI (1965), pp. 5-13 for details of the Hake-Kitchener excavations at Kourion.
Parallels: Benson J. 1972, The necropolis of Kaloriziki (Göteborg), K422 (Tomb 23), pl. 32.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1982
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1982,0729.443
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 204-1883 (V&A number)
