Attic black-figure pottery amphora depicting a mythological scene
On display
Details
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Title
Attic black-figure pottery amphora depicting a mythological scene
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Associated place
Attica (place of creation) -
Date
550 BC - 530 BC
Archaic Period (750 - 480 BC) -
Material and technique
pottery, with painted and incised decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
47.5 cm (height)
rim 20.5 cm (diameter)
foot 16.6 cm (diameter)
36.5 cm (width)
2.1 cm (rim thickness) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1910.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 16 | The Greek World -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1918.64
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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), no. 3 on p. 98, no. 3 on pl. 4; pl. 5
Beazley, John, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (New York: Hacker Art Books, 1978), no. 5 on p. 296
Vickers, Michael J., Greek Vases (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1978), no. 16
Burn, L., Glynn, R, Beazley Addenda. Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena (Oxford University Press, 1982), no. 296.5 on p. 39
Vickers, Michael, J., Ancient Greek Pottery (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1999), no. 12 on p. 23, Amphora, no. 12 on p. 23
