amphora

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Object Type
Description: Neck and shoulder sherd of Attic black-figured pottery neck-amphora; interior glazed black (fired in part streaky red); exterior: black-figure decoration consisting of confronted horse riders (of left pair, chest, snout, and part of forelegs of horse remaining; of right pair, only top of head of rider and rump of horse missing; with added red on mane); below, red on raised fillet between neck and shoulder; trace of undetermined black-figure decoration at top of shoulder.
Cultures/periods: Attic; Archaic Greek
Production date: 550BC-525BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Naukratis
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 7.50 centimetres; Thickness: 1.10 centimetres; Width: 7.50 centimetres
Bibliographic references: CVA Cambridge II / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain, Fascicule 11, Cambridge, Fascicule 2 (p. 41, pl. XX, no. 37); Venit 1982 / Painted Pottery from the Greek Mainland found in Egypt, 640-450 BC (p. 238, no. B112); Villing et al 2013-2015 / Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt (GA.0893)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Department: External
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: GR.196.1899 (Accession Number)

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