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Nikosthenic neckamphora (Attic black-figure ware)
530 BCE
- Medium
- earthenware
- Measurements
- 30.5 × 20.4 × 17.3 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Attica, Greece
- Inscription
- inscribed in Greek script at the junction of the neck and body: NIKOSTHENES EPOIESEN
inscribed on the base: III (trademark) - Accession Number
- D392-1980
- Department
- Antiquities
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1980
© Public Domain
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
- Vase with an ovoid body, set off from a long neck tapering upwards to a wide flaring mouth, with very wide strap handles from the shoulder to rim level and four raised fillets, one at the neck/body junction, two on the upper body and one at the base of the body. The flat rim is decorated with dolphins and each side of the neck has a large lotus/palmette quatrefoil with added red and white. On the shoulder is a large eye, flanked by palmettes.