Asset ID:
9887
CMS Object ID:
454138
Accession Number:
AN1916.55
Title:
Athenian Late Geometric IIb amphora; prothesis - mourners and corpse, warriors and chariots; the handles, shoulder and rim are decorated with plastic snakes
Object Name:
amphora
Associated person(s) + dates:
the Tapestry Workshop
Object dating:
8th - 7th century BC (800 - 601 BC)
Dimensions:
67.7 cm (height) ; 39.5 cm (diameter) ; 22.8 cm of mouth (diameter) ; base 13.7 cm (diameter)
Materials/ techniques:
clay
Responsible department:
Antiquities
Single/ multiple object:
Single
Asset copyright notice:
© Ashmolean Museum
Key words:
- 8th-7th
- added
- ahlberg
- air
- amphora
- ancient
- art
- artful
- artist
- athenian
- athens
- attic
- b.c
- bands
- bc
- bear
- beginning
- belly
- bier
- bodies
- body
- case
- century
- characteristic
- chariots
- cm
- coldstream
- colour
- consisting
- corpse
- crafts
- decoration
- design
- desire
- e.a
- e.p.warren
- ekphora
- ep
- expanses
- fact
- features
- fig
- figure
- figures
- gardner
- geometric
- gift
- greek
- gv
- handles
- head
- heads
- iib
- interest
- interlace
- j.n
- laid
- large
- late
- later
- legs
- lit
- little
- logic
- logic.thus
- lozenges
- main
- men
- mourners
- neck
- no
- origin
- ornament
- ornaments
- pall
- part
- pictorial
- plastic
- point
- pottery
- principal
- profile
- prothesis
- result
- rim
- scene
- several
- shoulder
- shoulders
- side
- skirts
- snakes
- spaces
- stars
- stuff
- swords
- tapestry
- textile
- tradition
- triangles
- underlying
- vacuum
- vase
- vickers
- viewpoint
- warp
- warren
- warriors
- wear
- women
- woof
- work
- workshop
- zig-zags
- zigzags
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