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Neck amphora (Sicilian red-figure ware)
350 BCE-340 BCE
- Medium
- earthenware
- Measurements
- 41.9 × 19.7 × 19.1 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Sicily, Italy
- Inscription
- none
- Accession Number
- 1342-D5
- Department
- Antiquities
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1966
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Physical description
- Tall, slender, necked amphora, with elongated ovoid body, pedestal foot and two handles from below the rim to the shoulder on either side. Decorated in black-glaze and red-figure. On the neck of Side A and B is a woman's head, in profile to the left, flanked by tendrils. Side A body: a seated youth between two women wearing diadems and clutons. Side B: Two nude women either side of a louterion (wash basin on pedestal). They wear only a ribbon around the thigh and a thin bandoher across the body.