Amphora
MS5464
Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery
From: Greece | Attica | Athens
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
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Object Number
MS5464
Current Location
Greece Gallery - On Display
Culture
Attic
Provenience
Greece | Attica | Athens
Manufacture Location
Attica
Period
Geometric Period
Date Made
720-700 BCE
Section
Mediterranean
Materials
Ceramic
Technique
Geometric
Iconography
Funeral | Funerary | Game | Chariot | Dancer | Man | Woman
Description
Neck, A: 6 men dancing, with branches, advancing to right. Neck, B: 5 women dancing, with branches, advancing to right. Mid-body: continous zone, warriors (helmets, shields, two spears) advancing to right. Plastic snakes around lip; vertically on outside of handles; and at very top of shoulder.
Height
63.8 cm
Outside Diameter
30.5 cm
Credit Line
Purchased from E. Canessa, 1916
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
Coldstream, John N. Greek Geometric Pottery: A Survey of Ten Local Styles and Their Chronology. . 2nd ed. Bristol University Press, University of Exeter, 2008. Page/Fig./Plate: 624 See: pp. 57-58, 295, no. 6
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"The Perseus Project."
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Rombos, Theodora. The Iconography of Attic Geometric II pottery . 1988. See: p. 99, 140, 374, no. 1, table 15, 20, 51
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Betancourt, Philip P. "The Age of Homer: An Exhibition of Geometric and Orientalizing Greek Art ." Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 12, no. 1. (1969): 2-14. See: pp. 8-9, fig. 26,30
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Fittschen, Klaus. Untersuchungen zum Beginn der Sagendarstellung bei den Griechen . Berlin: Verlag Bruno Hessling, 1969. See: pp. 19-20, no. 42
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Wegner, Max. Musik und Tanz . band U. Archaeologi Homerica. See: p. 83, no. 134
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Guide to the Collections, The University Museum . Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1965. See: p. 50View related objects
Tolle, Renate. Fruhgriechische Reigentanze . 1964. See: pp. 19-20, no. 42
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"The Annual of the British School at Athens."
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"The Annual of the British School at Athens."
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Luce, Stephen B. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section
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Luce, Stephen B. "A Group of Greek Vases ." The Museum Journal 8, no. 1. (1917): 15-28. See: pp. 15-21, fig. 2
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