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Accession_Number 45.10.14.1
Shape Amphora
Shape_description Neck amphora
Material Terracotta
Fabric Attic
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 7.5YR 6/6
Decoration Interior: Black, apart from a thin band at the joining point of the rim and neck, and the top surface of the rim, which are reserved. Exterior: The rim is black and there is a thin reddish brown line below it. Neck: There is a thin, black line. Below, there is a fan-shaped palmette (three divisions, a central rectangular part, and the details have been rendered with incisions), between two parts of motifs. The left one may be a palmette (a petal-shaped division in the middle and below, two round? or voluted? motifs almost faded away. The right one could be part of a similar motif.
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Condition Fragment from the rim and neck. There is white plaster on both surfaces. Colour has been pitted off, especially on the external surface of the rim, and peeled off from several spots. The decoration is fadded away on some areas.
Technique/Style Black figure
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2006.20.0624.jpg
Top view of a fragment of an Attic amphora, showing exterior with a black rim and decoration on the neck.

2006.20.0625.jpg
Top view of a fragment of an Attic amphora, showing black interior apart from the thin band where the rim and neck join.
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Other_dims. Height: 6.4 Width: 10.8
Location 11.1.7
Edited_by Georgia; Liz; Joana Varela
Date_edited 24.06.2003; 21.06.2007; 19.04.2017
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