Attic red-figure amphora: preparing bulls for sacrifice

Classification

amphora ; red-figure pottery

Culture

Greek (culture)

Dimensions

height: 44,45 cm

Date

ca. 450 B.C.

Period

Classical Period (480–323)

Material

clay

Artist

Nausicaa Painter

Iconography

female figure ; bull ; offering scene ; ribbon ; peplos ; sakkos ; diadem ; earrings ; tripod ; himation ; oenochoe ; libation bowl (phiale, patera); "walking stick"; ivy leaf ; egg-and-dart motif

Inscription

Greek (language)

Production place

Athens

Present location

London, British Museum, Department of Greece and Rome

Inventory

1846,0128.1

ID

Per-6951

See the object at the website of the British Museum.

side A

side A, detail

B oldal

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This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.