neck-amphora

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Object Type: neck-amphora
Museum number: 1980,1029.1
Description: Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora, with Dionysos and two satyrs, and on the other side, a four-horse chariot. Dionysos holds a drinking-horn in one hand and a vine branch in the other. Attributed to the painter Psiax, and signed on the rim by Andokides as potter.
Producer name: Attributed to: Psiax (painter); Made by: Andokides (potter)
Cultures/periods: Attic
Production date: 530BC-500BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Vulci
Materials: pottery
Ware: Black Figure
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 39.50 centimetres
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Location: On display (Room 14 - Greek vases, Display Case 1)
Subjects: satyr; classical deity; charioteer/chariot
Associated names: Representation of: Dionysos/Bacchus
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Christie's
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton (?)
Acquisition date: 1980
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1980,1029.1

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