DescriptionBoeotian early orientalizing - neck-amphora - sphinxes and birds - Tübingen MUT 61-5792 - 02.jpg
English: object type / vase shape: footed neck-amphora with double handles on the shoulder
- decoration technique: painted dark on light
- description shoulder A (=B? most of B missing): large sphinx, bird
- production place: Boeotia
- painter / group: unattributed, strong early protoattic influence
- period / date: subgeometric, early orientalizing, ca. 690-680 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- restored height: 59 cm
- findspot: unknown (formerly: Basle art market)
- museum / inventory number: Tübingen, Schloss Hohentübingen, Museum der Universität, Museum Alte Kulturen 61.5792
- bibliography: CVA Tübingen 1 (1973), plate 6.1-2, 7.1-3
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