amphora(possibly);
oinochoe(possibly)
- Museum number
- AshmLoan.101
- Description
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Body sherd of Attic black-figured pottery closed vessel, amphora or oinochoe; exterior: black-figure decoration consisting of dancing figure to left and looking up and back (top of helmeted head and most of legs lost; wearing added red cross-bands and tight-fitting short chiton, and holding crooked white stick in left hand and probably shield on the right arm); at right, either a black handle zone with wavy vertical incised lines or a substantial structure of some kind.
- Production date
- 500BC-475BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 6.80 centimetres
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Thickness: 0.40 centimetres
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Width: 8 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Object owned and held by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. This record is included in the British Museum database as part of the Museum’s Naukratis Project, a research collaboration that aims to virtually re-unite finds from the ancient port city of Naukratis, now distributed over 80 museums worldwide.
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The cross-bands, style of trunks and 'wobbly' spear suggest this is a female dancer; compare the red-figured Boeotian lekythos in Poursat's full treatment of the topic, BCH 92 (1968) 602-3, no. 52.
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For other armed dancing scenes, see the red figure cup G136 in the Louvre.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- External
- Registration number
- AshmLoan.101
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: AN1896-1908-G.131.34 (Accession Number)
