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NM Ant 2116 :: amphora

Object description: Everted rim; wide neck with slightly concave profile; ovoid body; rounded loop handles on belly; raised, flaring base. Reddish yellow clay; yellowish brown slip; semilustrous, black paint, misfired to red at places. Rim edge painted; on two sides of neck metope and triglyph frieze: two metopes with hatched, long-necked bird, in the background a star, flanking a central panel with ‘sunbirst’; frieze framed by horizontal lines; below frieze row of solidly painted birds of varying size; above both handles a panel with two wiggly lines; in handle zone mnetope and triglyph frieze: three metopes on each side of body with ‘sunbirsts’ and panels with one wiggly line between triglyphs; below frieze horizontal lines; lower body and base painted.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 2116

Serie nummer

646

Object

amphora

Country - Findspot

Greece : Europe

Place - Findspot

Milos

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Acquisition

Purchased in 1936 by the National Museum, Stockholm, from First Chamberlain Axel Hallin and wife.

Description

Everted rim; wide neck with slightly concave profile; ovoid body; rounded loop handles on belly; raised, flaring base. Reddish yellow clay; yellowish brown slip; semilustrous, black paint, misfired to red at places. Rim edge painted; on two sides of neck metope and triglyph frieze: two metopes with hatched, long-necked bird, in the background a star, flanking a central panel with ‘sunbirst’; frieze framed by horizontal lines; below frieze row of solidly painted birds of varying size; above both handles a panel with two wiggly lines; in handle zone mnetope and triglyph frieze: three metopes on each side of body with ‘sunbirsts’ and panels with one wiggly line between triglyphs; below frieze horizontal lines; lower body and base painted.

Period

Late Geometric

Name - Acquired from

Hallin, Axel

Source - http: collections.smvk.se
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

Exhibition - Current

Study Gallery

Description: Upstairs, in interaction with the Baghdad Cafe, opened in February 2009, the upper gallery. A rich variety of objects retrieved from the museum's storerooms, many of them shown for the first time. A series of booths filled to the brim with beautiful vases functions as a traditional study collection of ancient ceramics. Other booths highlights the thematic elements of the ancient world: the subject of everyday and festive, and images of gods, humans and animals. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2009-07-13, google translate).
Time - Start: 2009-022009-02

Exhibition, Part of - Current