Amphoriskos

Museum number:
8-3445
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Accession number:
Acc.147
Description:
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
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and M. Boissé
Collection place:
Rhodes, Dodecanese islands, Aegean Islands
Culture or time period:
Greek Archaic Period (700–480 BC)
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Amphoriskoi
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Images:
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
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with 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

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