[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Title
- [No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Burial-urn Amphora Vase A1124
- Creator
- unknown
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- unknown Ancient Greek (vase painter)
- Description
- Pottery neck-handled amphora; the shape suggests that it was probably used for a male burial. Clay: orange-buff clay, white grits, lustrous brown-black paint. Shape: torus lip, tall concave neck, ovoid body, disc foot; strap handles. Decoration: Light ground. Bands inside and outside lip, and at base of neck. Shoulder: two sets of nine compass-drawn concentric circles; band between lines below. Three lines around lower body. Handles: intersecting diagonal lines, rings around lower roots. --The British Museum Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Athens, Periféreia Protevoúsis, Greece (discovery)
- Temporal
- ca. 975-950 BCE
- Subject
- Geomtric Black Figure Pottery II Proto Geometric and Early Geometric
- Style Period
- Protogeometric Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- cremation urns amphorae (storage vessels)
- Date
- -0975/-0950
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_04725
- Item Locator
- Box 11, Section 5
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Height: 42.2 cm Diameter: 15.5 cm Diameter: 26.9 cm Weight: 5 kg
- Material
- pottery | painted
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
- Attic (culture)
- Id Current Repository
- 1978,0701.8
