Object class: Amphorae (storage vessels) / Donor: Alfred Emerson / Culture or time period: Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Amphora, accession number 8-3378, described as Etruscan Red-figure amphora with twisted handles; broken and mended from several pieces with repainting over cracks; A, Warrior (sheild device a mug) and woman at stele; both hold flower of leaves in one hand; B, woman, and warrior pouring libation from patera; beneath scemnes, maeander punctuated by rosette motifs

Hearst Museum object titled Amphora, accession number 8-124, described as Amphora, blue fillets (modern reproduction of Roman glass). Copy of Roman two-handled glass jar. Original of the third or fourth century A.D. (The original had a handle as well, now broken away on the copy). Felmer's catalogue #27. 8-124.

Hearst Museum object titled Amphora, accession number 8-3377, described as Attic black-figure amphora of “doubleen” shape; A, combat of three warriors; at left archer to left looking round; at right two hoplites fighting, one fallen to ground (his sheild blazon a white tripod); B, Dionysos standing to right., head turned back, holding rhyton and branch, between dancing satyr and maenad; on neck, lotus-palmette on shoulder, tongues. Height 32.0 cm Diameter 18.2 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Amphora type a, accession number 8-60, described as Attic black-figure amphora type B; A, Achilles pursuing Troilos; at left, Athena; at right, Polyxena; her hydria has dropped but not broken; B, departure of warriors with chariot; at right, mantled figure; beneath horses, small mantled figure - a child (?); above each scene, lotus palmette frieze; at base, rays. height 45.7; diameter 30.7 cm. Vessel features Homeric epic scene.

Hearst Museum object titled Amphoriskos, accession number 8-3445, described as Corinthian black-figure amphoriskos; intact; some cracks in body; glase fired purplish red; on mouth, 2 horizontal lines, narrow stripe down each handle, on neck zigzags, on shoulder tongues; on each face palmette complex, under eacch handle 2 concentric circlees round dot; filling of rosettes, saltires, blobls and dots. height 13.8; Diameter 8.0 cm

Hearst Museum object titled Amphoriskos flask, accession number 8-115, described as Amphoriskos flask (modern reproduction of Roman glass)

Hearst Museum object titled Neck-amphora, accession number 8-3415, described as Chalcidian neck-amphora; reassembled from several large fragments, with some restoration in plaster and repainting over cracks; neck glazed with wavy red line; main zone, A-B: floral (palmettes and leaves), under each handle, siren; shoulder, A: boar between panther and siren; B: ram between sirens; rosettes; base-rays. H., 28.0; D., 17.2cm

Hearst Museum object titled Neck-amphora, accession number 8-201, described as Etruscan black-figure neck-amphora; bifid handles; foot flaring with rolled edge; in fields on body, A, bull; B, cow; white dappling; on brim, coarse ivy leaves and dots; on neck, double leaves or petals with median rings; on shoulder, zigzag, below thin crossed and dotted squares in the bends of an embattled line. H. 21.0; D. 14.5 cm Add'tl comments: Orientalizing/Geometric decoration along the shoulder of the amphora; spots on cow reminiscent of Egyptianinzing motif. Not a prefect firing as the ceramic leans slightly to one side on the axis of the foot.