Inventory Number: | P 9486 | |
Section Number: | ΛΛ 430 | |
Title: | Red Figure Amphora | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Description: | Base intact; lip, neck, shoulder and handles largely complete; lower body fragmentary. Restored in plaster. Shape: late variety of amphora, type B. A) Charioteer in long chiton driving a team of four horses, left; toward him, behind the horses, flies Nike. She wears a Doric chiton and an embroidered sakkos open at the top, and she carries an amphora of Panathenaic shape. Border at top, palmette and lotus; below, maeander with saltire squares. B) Winged female figure, wearing chiton and himation, holds out a patera to a bearded male figure. He wears an himation which leaves his right shoulder bare, and holds a lotus-tipped staff in his right hand. Slanting palmettes above maeander and saltire squares below. Around the vertical face of the lip, ivy wreath: leaves reserved, stem and berries in white. Tongue pattern around lower handle attachments. Considerable relief contour on A; none on B. Brown inner drawing on the horses. Brown wash under the charioteer's hair; brown also for a few details: palmettes on neck of Nike's amphora; horses' eyes and ears; details of harness. | |
Context: | Pit, 'upper cutting'. | |
Notebook Page: | 511, 516, 1493 | |
Negatives: | Leica, V-61, V-62, V-63, 7-221, 7-222, 7-223, 7-306, 84-681, 84-682, 84-683, color slide | |
PD Number: | Ptg. 299 | |
Dimensions: | Diam. (lip) 0.355, (foot) 0.23; Est. Diam. 0.415; H. 0.563 | |
Chronology: | Ca. 440-430 B.C. | |
Date: | 23 March 1937 | |
Section: | ΛΛ | |
Grid: | ΛΛ:84/ΙΣΤ-ΙΘ | |
Deposit: | F 5:3 | |
Period: | Greek | |
Bibliography: | Camp and Mauzy (2009), p. 114, fig. 122. | |
Lynch (2007a), p. 214, fig. 182. | ||
AgoraPicBk 25 (2003), p. 28, fig. 28. | ||
Archaeology 19 (1966), p. 115, fig. 4. | ||
Hesperia 7 (1938), p. 345, fig. 28. | ||
ARV, p. 687, no. 12, Peleus P. | ||
ARV2, p. 1040, no. 18. | ||
Agora XXX, no. 7, pls. 3, 4. | ||
Paralip., p. 443, no. 18. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora XXX Publication: AgoraPicBk 25 (2003) Publication: Hesperia 7 (1938) Publication Pages (7) Drawing: DA 10706 Images (20) Object: Agora XXX, no. 7 Deposit: F 5:3 Notebook: ΛΛ-3 Notebook: ΛΛ-8 Notebook Page: ΛΛ-3-60 (pp. 510-511) Notebook Page: ΛΛ-3-63 (pp. 516-517) Notebook Page: ΛΛ-8-51 (pp. 1492-1493) Card: P 9486 Card: P 9486 |