Attic black-figure pottery amphora depicting a mythological scene
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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
520 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
55.5 cm (height)
rim 26.5 cm (diameter)
foot 21 cm (diameter)
37 cm (width)
1.7 cm (rim thickness) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1965.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 16 | The Greek World -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1965.118
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Further reading
Beazley, John, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956), no. 1 on p. 335
Beazley, John, Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-figure Vase-painters and to Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 2nd (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), para.148
Boardman, John, Athenian Black Figure Vases (London: Oxford University Press, 1974), p. 113; no. 226 on p. 246, no. 226 on p. 142
Boardman, John, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain 14, Oxford 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975), nos 2-5 on p. 21, nos 2-5 on pl. 34; nos 1-2 on pl. 35
Burn, L., Glynn, R, Beazley Addenda. Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena (Oxford University Press, 1982), no. 335.1 on p. 44
