Attic red-figure pottery unguent jar
On display
Details
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Title
Attic red-figure pottery unguent jar
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Associated place
Central Athens (find spot)Attica (place of creation) -
Date
490 BC - 480 BC
Classical Period (Greece) (480 - 323 BC) -
Material and technique
pottery, with painted decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
6.1 cm (height)
rim 2.5 cm (diameter)
foot 3.5 cm (diameter)
6 cm (width)
0.4 cm (rim thickness) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1929.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 16 | The Greek World -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1929.175
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Further reading
Beazley, J.D., H.G.G. Payne, E.R. Price, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain 9, Oxford 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931), nos 1-7 on pp 116-117, nos 1-7 on pl. 64
Boardman, John, Athenian Red Figure Vases the Archiac Period (London: Thames and Hudson, 1975), p. 140; no. 318 on p. 247, Aryballos, no. 318 on p. 178
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