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
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Date
525 BC - 510 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
57.5 cm (height)
rim 26 cm (diameter)
foot 17.5 cm (diameter)
35 cm (width)
1.9 cm (rim thickness) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Transferred from the Randolph building, 1885.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 16 | The Greek World -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1885.668
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Further reading
Gardner, P., Evans, A., Catalogue of the Greek Vases in the Ashmolean Museum, Museum Oxoniense, 1 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1893), no. 212 on p. 10, pl. 2
Beazley, J.D., H.G.G. Payne, E.R. Price, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain 9, Oxford 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931), nos 5-6 on p. 99, no. 9 on pl. 7; nos 5-6 on pl.8; no. 3 on pl. 9
Beazley, John, Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-figure Vase-painters and to Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 2nd (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), para.146
Boardman, John, Athenian Black Figure Vases (London: Oxford University Press, 1974), p. 112; no. 225 on p. 246, no. 225 on p. 141
Vickers, Michael J., Greek Vases (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1978), no. 21
Burn, L., Glynn, R, Beazley Addenda. Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena (Oxford University Press, 1982), no. 331.5 on p. 43
Vickers, Michael, J., Ancient Greek Pottery (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1999), no. 15 on p. 26, no. 15 on p. 26
