NM Ant 1654
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alabastron
- Object description
- Broad lip, sloping steeply towards mouth; narrow neck; small, thick lug handle; elongated ovoid body; flattened base; depressed ring on underside. Buff clay; lustrous, yellowish buff slip; lustrous, black paint, partly misfired to red; added red and white; incisions. Tongues between concentric circles on rim top; dots on side of rim; vertical stroke on handle; tongues on neck; on body two large friezes separated by a zone of scale pattern; each scale has incised, double outline and a central dot; added red on most of the scales, white on some of the dots; above and below the scale pattern a zone of bands; above and below the friezes a zone of bands of varying width; in the upper frieze a siren facing right, flanked by confronting panthers; the tails of the panthers cross beneath handle; in the lower frieze a grazing deer facing right, flanked by confronting panthers with crossed tails; in both friezes added red and incisions used for details on the animals; incised rosettes, incised and plain blobs and dots as filling ornaments; four bands of varying width on underside.
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