Amphora Lid

MS2462B

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS2462B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Attic
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location Attica
Date Made 550-500 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Black Figure
Iconography Pomegranate
Description

Sections amounting to about one quarter of circumferance missing from around the edge. Knob in form of pomegranate. Around it in a border of tongue pattern, alternately purple and black. Pattern of ivy leaves with red stem around the edge. A prominent flange to fit in neck of vessel on unglazed underside.

Height 8 cm
Outside Diameter 20.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Davis & Harvey (Coleman Estate Sale); Subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897

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