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NM Ant 0001 :: amphora

Object description: Everted rim; slightly flaring neck; ovoid body; horizontal, rounded handles at neck; conical foot with torus base. Reddish brown to yellowish red clay; pinkish yellow slip; lustrous, brown to black paint, partly misfired to red; added white. Brown band on inside of neck; on rim top four groups of four bars each; one broad, brown band on outside of rim/neck top and one at base of neck/shoulder; on neck a band of zigzag lines alternating with vertical lines, framed by bands; below this a broad band of vertical, wavy lines, framed by bands; on shoulder a metope frieze, delimited by groups of parallel, vertical lines; a grazing deer stag with long neck and legs in the large metope on side A; the deer’s head, right foreleg, belly, tail and hind legs are drawn in outline and filled with brown dots; the rest of the body is brown with white dots; three concentric circles with a central dot in each of the two smaller metopes on side B; brown arcs in the two handle metopes; outside of handles brown; fourteen bands encircle the belly beneath the metope frieze; remaining part of body and upper part of foot brown, except for a reserved band at lower body; reserved area on lower part of foot with alternating straight and wavy, horizontal lines.

Data elements
References (13)

Inventory number

NM Ant 0001

Serie nummer

1656

Object

amphora

Country - Origin

Greece : Europe

Country, Swedish - Origin

Grekland

Region - Origin

Cyclades; Paros [?]

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Exhibitions

The National Museum, 1967. Jönköpings läns museum, 1998.

Acquisition

Gift from the then Duke of Östergötland (later king Oscar II) in 1847. Transferred from Gustaf III:s Museum of Antiquities to the National Museum.

Description

Everted rim; slightly flaring neck; ovoid body; horizontal, rounded handles at neck; conical foot with torus base. Reddish brown to yellowish red clay; pinkish yellow slip; lustrous, brown to black paint, partly misfired to red; added white. Brown band on inside of neck; on rim top four groups of four bars each; one broad, brown band on outside of rim/neck top and one at base of neck/shoulder; on neck a band of zigzag lines alternating with vertical lines, framed by bands; below this a broad band of vertical, wavy lines, framed by bands; on shoulder a metope frieze, delimited by groups of parallel, vertical lines; a grazing deer stag with long neck and legs in the large metope on side A; the deer’s head, right foreleg, belly, tail and hind legs are drawn in outline and filled with brown dots; the rest of the body is brown with white dots; three concentric circles with a central dot in each of the two smaller metopes on side B; brown arcs in the two handle metopes; outside of handles brown; fourteen bands encircle the belly beneath the metope frieze; remaining part of body and upper part of foot brown, except for a reserved band at lower body; reserved area on lower part of foot with alternating straight and wavy, horizontal lines.

Period

Orientalising; Archaic

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

670-650 BC

Name - Acquired from

Oscar II (1829 - 1907), Kung av Norge, Kung av Sverige

Source - http: collections.smvk.se, id.loc.gov, digitaltmuseum.org, libris.kb.se
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: sv.wikipedia.org
Source, Viaf - same as: viaf.org
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

Exhibition - Previously

Främre Orienten (2017)

Time - Start: 2017-12-082017-12-08
Time - End: 2023-092023-09

Room 10, 1989-2008

Description: Room 10, Central hall, permanent exhibition. There have been some small changes during the years.
In 2006 the multiculture showcase was installed and the two other showcases were painted.
Time - Start: 19891989
Time - End: 20082008