Object class: Neck amphorae / Donor: M. Boissé / Culture or time period: Ancient Greece - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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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 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.

Hearst Museum object titled Neck-amphora, accession number 8-3376, described as Attic black-figure neck-amphora; some restoration in plaster on side B; on neck, lotus-palmette chain; on shoulder, tongues; below scenes, lotus, rays at handles, lotus-palmette compelxes; A, Hermes, Athena, Herkales (Latin: Mercury, Minerva, Hercules), and panther; B, Apollo playing cithara, Artemis (Latin: Diana) and Leto (or 2 muses) and deer. Height, 41.7 diameter 28.1 cm