amphora / Ceramic / Paint / Plaster or mortar / Slip

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.2570
Object Name: amphora
Lot: Marburg Collection
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Pottery
Materials: Ceramic; Paint; Plaster or mortar; Slip
Length: ;
Width: 32.5;
Height: 44.4;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;4457g
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Mended. Foot and large parts of body and neck are modern. Reddish buff clay with paler yellowish slip. Red brown to brown-black glaze. Three stripes on inside of mouth. Bars on lip top. Groups of zigzag and a meander on neck. Groups of zigzags on shoulder. Between handles a panel with elaborate geometric pattern flanked by panels with dotted lattice pattern. Below a meander band; a chain of lozenges (concentric and dotted on A, latticed and dotted on B); zone with stylized floral forms and swastikas as filling ornaments; lower body covered with horizontal stripes. On the handles bars between lengthwise lines, with a dotted lattice pattern on flat space between the loop. Patterned triangle below the loops. Double spiral unusual in Boetian Geometric. Transitional type decoration.; Amphora. Clay.
Verbatim Date: c. 1000 - 700 BC
Verbatim Provenance: Greece
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Case 07 - Greek World
Exhibition Curator: Talalay, Lauren; Herbert, Sharon C.
Exhibition Year: 2009
Publication Title: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Publication Author: Van Ingen, Wilhelmina
Publication Year: 1933
Type Category: Ceramic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.2570
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2570/dscn9222.jpg

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Full citation: "amphora; Ceramic; Paint; Plaster or mortar; Slip." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2570/dscn9222.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.