amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 2000,1101.22
Description: Pottery; seven Attic red-figure fragments from a Nolan amphora; (a) Menelaos pursing Helen; it is uncertain whether Helen is on a or b.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 470BC-460BC
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: HMS Colossus; Excavated/Findspot: St Mary's Island (off)
Materials
Ware
Technique
Bibliographic references: Smallwood & Woodford 2003 / The British Museum: fragments from Sir William Hamilton's second collection of vases recovered from the wreck of HMS Colossus (22); Tischbein / Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases Mostly of Pure Greek Workmanship discovered in Sepulchres in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies but chiefly in the Neighbourhood of Naples during the course of the years MDCCLXXXXIX and MDCCLXXXX now in the Possession of Sir William Hamilton (50)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: Menelaus; Representation of: Helen
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 2000
Acquisition notes: Fragments of Sir William Hamilton's second collection of vases, recovered from HMS Colossus between 1975 and 1978.
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 2000,1101.22
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: Colossus no. 9
Conservation

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