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amphora(?); olpe(?)

Object Type: amphora (?); olpe (?)
Description: Fragment of a pottery black-figured amphora or olpe. Clay: yellow-red with mica. Exterior: head of a panther to right; to right, part of floral complex including pendent palmette with chevron-incised band. Inside reserved.
Cultures/periods: Archaic Greek; Attic
Production date: 590BC-570BC
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece) (?)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Naukratis
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 4.10 centimetres; Width: 3.20 centimetres
Curator's comments: Production centre uncertain in view of the mention of mica in the clay by Prins de Jong in her notebook.
Bibliographic references: Prins de Jong 1925 / Scherben aus Naukratis: Aus der Sammlung des Universitäts-Professors Dr Fr W Freih von Bissing (p. 62, no. 20); Villing et al 2013-2015 / Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt (GA.0922)
Location: Not on display
Previous owner
Acquisition notes: ex coll. Scheurleer, ex coll. v. Bissing
Department: External
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: T.2954 (Musée Scheurleer (The Hague) Registration number); Miscellaneous number: VII.20 (cat. no. in Prins de Jong 1925)