Amphora

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Inventory number

ΝΑ 1959 ΝΑΚ 32

Artist

The Birdseed Painter workshop (?)

Category

Vessel

Period

Geometric Period

Date

735-710 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.595 m
Rim diameter: 0.206 m
Body diameter: 0.395 m
Base diameter: 0.152 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 73

Description
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Amphora mended of many fragments and restored. It was found in 1959 at a cemetery located on the south slope of the Acropolis, deposited in Burial I-19 as a burial offering along with three more vessels.

Its base is ring-shaped, the body ovoid, the neck wide and the handles vertical. The neck is adorned on both sides with two pairs of horses and different combinations of geometric motifs. The largest part of the amphora’s surface is decorated with horizontal bands and its lowest part is covered in a wide band of black colour.

Χαριτωνίδης, Σ.Ι., «Ευρήματα Πρωτογεωμετρικής και Γεωμετρικής εποχής της ανασκαφής νοτίως της Ακροπόλεως», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 28, 1973, σελ. 6, πίν. 1β-γ, αρ. κατ. ΓΜ 1