Neck-amphora

Museum number:
8-2167
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Accession number:
Acc.103
Description:
Attic black-figure neck-amphora; approx. 17 fragments preserving foot and portions of lower body; extremely fragmentary with inner shell composed of tinted plaster and newspaper; dish foot; at base, rays; above, upright lotus chain with dots; above this, figure frieze, of which feet of several figures and lower part of one woman remain; at handles, lotus-palmette.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tomb P, Saturnia, Tuscany
Verbatim coll. place:
Tomb P
Culture or time period:
Etruscan and Greek Archaic Period (700–480 BC)
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
1895
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Neck amphorae
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Neck-amphora, accession number 8-2167, described as Attic black-figure neck-amphora; approx. 17 fragments preserving foot and portions of lower body; extremely fragmentary with inner shell composed of tinted plaster and newspaper; dish foot; at base, rays; above, upright lotus chain with dots; above this, figure frieze, of which feet of several figures and lower part of one woman remain; at handles, lotus-palmette.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Neck-amphora, accession number 8-2167, described as Attic black-figure neck-amphora; approx. 17 fragments preserving foot and portions of lower body; extremely fragmentary with inner shell composed of tinted plaster and newspaper; dish foot; at base, rays; above, upright lotus chain with dots; above this, figure frieze, of which feet of several figures and lower part of one woman remain; at handles, lotus-palmette.

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