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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
© 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
- 17th to 18th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - 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.