amphora(?)
- Description
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Fragment from shoulder of large closed pottery vessel (amphora?); white slip; glaze patchily fired; from the top: two bands at base of neck; band of tongues; friezes separated by bands with added red band lined in white: above, pendant lotus and bud frieze; below, animal frieze with part of goat, head reverted, rosettes in field. Interior reserved.
- Production date
- 600 BC - 575 BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 6 centimetres (neck)
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Height: 7.10 centimetres
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Width: 11.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Object owned and held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 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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Incised mark "AP" on fragment. Published in Fairbanks 1928, p. 113, pl. XXXV, no. 324.2.
Fairbanks, A.1928, Catalogue of Greek and Etruscan Vases, Boston.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- External
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 86.502 (Accession Number)
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Miscellaneous number: P.4655 (Pottery & Porcelain Ledger No.)
