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Accession_Number

26.2.51

Shape

Amphora or oinochoe

Shape_description

Shoulder sherd of North Ionian Late Wild Goat Style black-figured pottery closed vessel, possibly an amphora.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

East Greek

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

Decoration

pale slip; exterior, from top: traces of undetermined decoration; band with added red and white lines; black-figure frieze of sphinxes (one with face and forelegs missing, and face, chest and forelegs of second remaining) to left; splinter rosettes and dots as filling ornament; below, second band, then frieze with animal procession in silhouette style consisting of goat grazing to left (horn, shoulders and back remaining); short vertical bars, dot, and maeander cross as filling ornament;

Inscriptions

Condition

Technique/Style

slipped, incised, painted; Wild Goat Style;

Provenance

Naukratis or Tell Dafana (made in North Ionia)

Period

Archaic

Date

600BC-570BC

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2003.46.0058.jpg	Top view of an East Greek amphora (?) fragment.
2004.46.0007.jpg	Top view of fragments.
2004.46.0090.jpg	Top view of an East Greek amphora (?) fragment.
2005.02.0490.jpg	Oblique view of an East Greek amphora (?) fragment.
2005.02.0491.jpg	Oblique view of an East Greek amphora (?) fragment.
2013.04.0117.jpg	Top view of an East Greek amphora (?) fragment.
2013.04.0118.jpg	Top view of an East Greek amphora (?) fragment.