Attic Black-Figure Amphora Lid

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Attic Black-Figure Amphora Lid

Creator

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Date
550–525 B.C.
Medium
Terracotta
Culture
Greek (Attic)
Department
Vessels
Institution
Getty Museum

Lid from a neck-amphora; pomegranate knob (solid), reserved, with a depression in the topside of the finial. Red line in the depression and at the junction of knob and dome. On the dome, four concentric glazed circles. Brim of lid slightly offset from the dome and ornamented with a wreath of ivy painted as a red line. A red stripe decorates the vertical edge of the lid. The reserved underside is flanged. After Clark, A., CVA Malibu 2 (1990).

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