Amphora Fragments
MS5875
Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery
From: Italy | Etruria | Orvieto
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS5875 |
| Current Location | Greece Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Attic |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Orvieto |
| Manufacture Location | Attica |
| Period | Archaic Greek Period |
| Date Made | 6th century BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Black Figure |
| Description | One of three possibly joining fragments preserve a section of rim, part of upper wall and neck, and the upper point of attachment of one handle. Distinctive flaring rim as Richter and Milne "Shapes and Names", p. xv. High quality black glaze on exterior down to level of shoulder and on the interior down to about level of bottom rim. Three wheel-run purple lines over glaze around neck. On wall, above: closely spaced palmette and lotus chain. Below it in the field is tripartite flower. These fragments belong to MS 4861. |
| Outside Diameter | 12.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898 |
| Other Number | MS4861 - Other Number |
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