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There are 23 objects for which Decoration contains → damage
2006.12.110 Possibly very worn black paint on one side, but could be general damage.
2006.12.42 Unclear due to damage and fading, but appears to be black painted design. Two parallel lines and some chevrons distinguishable
2007.10.2.300 Standing frontal image of a clothed male figure. The figure appears to be holding something in each hand; however, damage to the surface makes it impossible to identify the items.
2007.4.157 Painted light red on one side, with a dark red stripe near the lip. On the other side again a dark red stripe near the lip, and some sort of pattern involving red lines on lighter, orangey lines, but difficult to see owing to damage
2007.4.75 Some sort of red glaze or paint; fire damage makes identification more difficult
2008.9.50 One side is decorated with black glaze. The same side is incised, depicting furniture; potentially either a chair or table leg. Potentially more decoration, however this could be surface damage.
45.10.15 18 fragments (i-xviii) of an Attic black figure Amphora, showing palmette-lotus neck decoration, with crude tongues below, parts of a central scene of female riders on horseback (possible Amazons) with male figures all facing right, below are upright lotus buds, and possibly the end of rays at the base of the vase. i) part of neck and lip, lip is black glaze with red band below with evidence of black decoration, the reverse is black glaze on neck, no glaze on the reverse of lip. ii) triangular fragment of neck with part of palmette-lotus chain decoration. Reverse black glaze. iii) triangular fragment of neck , part of palmette decoration. The reverse is mostly unglazed. iv) fragment of neck and shoulder with bottom part of black neck decoration and two sets of vertical line (tongue) decoration. v) larger part of shoulder and body showing a male head and shoulders facing right with vines on either side of the head, above a row of vertical line (tongue) decoration. vi) small fragment of neck with part of palmette decoration, reverse black glaze. vii) part of neck and body, with four vertical lines above, head of female with helmet and white face, the eye and eyebrow of the female is incised with added pigment, facing right, part of horse head and neck, with white hand of female holding on. The helmet of the rider shows incised decoration and a red band, the horse head also has incised decoration showing bridle and reigns. Vine decoration between female head and horse and behind female head. viii) largest fragment of body showing lower body and legs of one horse and rider (rider’s leg white so possibly female) behind this is the front lower half of the second horse with white legged rider, there is a vine between the two horses, below are two horizontal register lines and then a frieze of upright lotus buds. ix) fragment of belly with lower part of a horse and top front legs, with white thigh, knee and lower leg of the rider. Incisions on horse. Other decoration to the right in black. x) fragment of belly, in the centre is a vertical vine, to the left is a black mark possibly a leaf, part of a circle (possible shield) with two black straight shapes coming from the bottom. To the right of the vine is a thick black line running vertically and to the bottom right of the fragment is a curved line in black. xi) fragment of belly with black line on far left followed by a vertical vine, leaf, and long black line, black leaf followed by another vertical vine, on the far right of the fragment is the bottom hindquarters of a horse xii) small fragments with black decoration that has incisions, vine and leaf. xiii) small fragment with thick vertical line, possibly a leg xiv) fragment from the body with black decoration incised and a vine pattern. xv) triangular fragment with a male head and shoulder, in black figure with eyes and hairline incised facing right. Small amounts of vine decoration at the top of the fragment. Semi-circular damage to the vessel on the left-hand side. xvi) small semi-circle in black with incised lines (joins with x) that forms a shield, to the right is part of a vine and another bit of black decoration. xvii) bottom part of belly, above the register line for main decoration, are legs/feet and other unknown, below two register lines are upright lotus buds, and below two more register line are the beginning ray decoration. xviii) section of the bottom of body, two register lines with upright lotus below, and two further register lines with the beginning of ray decoration.
45.10.28 four fragments identified by Annie Ure as coming from the same vessel. i) largest, triangular shaped. The majority of the decoration is black glazed, there is damage to the extreme right of the black glaze where there may have been a handle. In the middle of the black glaze there is a small circular chip. There is vertical separation from glazed area and decorated panel, only a small amount of decoration remains (1 cm) this includes black figure and applied red. ii) small five sided fragment with black figure decoration with incised detail- long vertical line with seven lines horizontally down the length, to the top left there is a long rectangular incised detail. There are two chips to the top and one in the bottom right corner. iii)small rectangular fragment with black figure decoration and applied red colour. Two vertical lines on left, possible leaf/vine motif in the main with circular red shape over. iv) Small rectangular fragment, left side of fragment vertical black band, centre part of vine motif and the thin black line to right.
84.5.11 Blocks XLVI and XLVII of the south frieze of the Parthenon, showing a section of the procession of the Panathenaic festival. Show youths driving bulls to sacrifice (rightwards). Blocks are partially reconstructed following damage to originals. Right of cast is blank as frieze ends
84.5.14 Blocks IV (figures 24 to 27) and VI (figures 38 to 42) of the east frieze of the Parthenon. Both blocks show various Olympian gods at rest on stools: from left to right: Hermes, Dionysus, Artemis, Ares, Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis (again), Aphrodite and Eros. Aphrodite has been reconstructed due to damage to the original
84.5.18 Blocks I, II, III and IV (figure 9) of the north frieze of the Parthenon, showing a section of the procession of the Panathenaic festival. Blocks show the leftwards driving of four bulls by nine males. Blocks I, III and IV reconstructed from drawings following damage to originals
84.5.19 Blocks IV (figures 10 to 12), V, VI and VII (figures 20 to 24) of the north frieze of the Parthenon, showing a section of the procession of the Panathenaic festival. Left of cast shows males leading a ram to sacrifice, centre of cast shows males carrying trays (skaphe) and water jars and right of cast shows male aulos players with a male in the background handling a boar. The tray-carriers and aulos-players are reconstructed from drawings following damage to the original blocks (V, VII). The water-carriers, despite the original block (VI) surviving almost completely intact, has the correct hydriai replaced by round squat vessels, and the boar is in the original a hydria being lifted from the ground
84.5.20 Blocks VII (figure 24), VIII, IX and X of the north frieze of the Parthenon, showing a section of the procession of the Panathenaic festival. Left half of cast shows four male kithara players. Right half of cast shows ten male elders proceeding leftwards. Blocks VIII and IX are reconstructed from drawings following damage to the originals. Block X is incorrectly reconstructed with differing poses for the group of male elders when compared to the surviving original
84.5.21 Blocks XI, XII, XIII and XIV of the north frieze of the Parthenon, showing a section of the procession of the Panathenaic festival. Two three-horse chariots with two riders each proceed leftwards while marshalled by three men. The chariot pairs are made up of one armoured male (with helmet, muscles cuirass and shield) and one female holding the reins. Blocks XI and XIII are heavily reconstructed following damage to the originals. Block XIV is completely reconstructed from drawings
84.5.22 Part of block XIV and blocks XV, XVIII, XIX and XX of the north frieze of the Parthenon, showing a section of the procession of the Panathenaic festival. Two three-horse chariots carrying one armoured male (with helmet, muscles cuirass and shield) and one female at the reins each are shown proceeding leftwards with each accompanied by a male marshal. Blocks XVI and XVII have been skipped. Blocks XIV, XIX have been reconstructed following damage to the originals; block XV has been reconstructed from drawings; blocks XVIII and XX are reconstructed from scratch following loss of originals
84.5.23 Blocks XXIV, (part of) XXVII, XXVIII and (part of) XXIX of the north frieze of the Parthenon, showing the a section of the procession of the Panathenaic festival. Two three-horse chariots carrying one armoured male (with helmet, muscles cuirass and shield) and one female at the reins each are shown proceeding leftwards with each accompanied by a male marshal, with the rightmost chariot shown with horses at rest. Block XXV, XXVI and part of XXVII have been skipped. All blocks are heavily reconstructed following damage to the originals
84.5.24 Blocks XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV and (part of) XXXVI of the north frieze of the Parthenon, showing a section of the procession of the Panathenaic festival. Shows a cavalcade of cavalry numbering nine horses proceeding leftwards. Blocks XXXIV and XXXVI have been incorrectly reconstructed and XXXV has been heavily reconstructed following damage to original
84.5.33 Blocks XII, XIII and XIV of the west frieze of the Parthenon, showing a section of the procession of the Panathenaic festival. Three groups of horsemen and horses are shown preparing for the procession. The leftmost group consists of three men and one horse; the centre group, one man and two horses; the rightmost group two men and one horse. From left to right the horses are shown in growing stages of excitement, with the rightmost shown taking fright. Blocks XIII and XIV are heavily reconstructed following damage to the originals
TEMP.2007.2 29 Black glaze with fire damage
TEMP.2007.2.51 Black glaze, possible fire damage
TEMP.2007.2.52 Black glaze, fire damage
TEMP.2007.2.54 Black glaze, chipped badly on one side with very minor damage on other
TEMP.2007.2.57 Black glaze with fire damage
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