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Monte Testaccio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmonte teˈstattʃo]) [1] or Monte Testaceo, also known as Monte dei Cocci, is an artificial mound in Rome composed almost entirely of testae (Italian: cocci), fragments of broken ancient Roman pottery, nearly all discarded amphorae dating from the time of the Roman Empire, some of which were labelled with tituli picti.
The Baratti amphora at the Archaeological Museum of Populonia. The Baratti amphora is a silver amphora, possibly from Antioch and dating to the late fourth century AD. It is a unique artistic masterpiece discovered by chance in 1968 off the coast of Baratti, Tuscany, Italy. Its origin, unique characteristics and construction method have been ...
Silver amphora-rhyton with zoomorphic handles, c. 500 BC, Vassil Bojkov Collection (Sofia, Bulgaria) An amphora (/ ˈ æ m f ər ə /; Ancient Greek: ἀμφορεύς, romanized: amphoreús; English pl. amphorae or amphoras) is a type of container [1] with a pointed bottom and characteristic shape and size which fit tightly (and therefore safely) against each other in storage rooms and ...
Paestum, Province of Salerno, Campania, Italy: Region: Magna Graecia: Coordinates ... and a large Athenian pottery black-figure amphora of about 520–500 BC. The ...
At the same time, in central Italy, the so-called Spello amphorae, small containers, were produced for the transportation of wine. On the Adriatic coast the older types were replaced by the Lamboglia 2 type, a wine amphora commonly produced between the end of the 2nd and the 1st century BC.
South Italian is a designation for ancient Greek pottery fabricated in Magna Graecia largely during the 4th century BC. The fact that Greek Southern Italy produced its own red-figure pottery as early as the end of the 5th century BC was first established by Adolf Furtwaengler in 1893 ( A.D. Trendall ).
From 1820 to 1830 he had lived in Italy, where he acquired most of his collection of over 160 ancient vases, including 52 black-figure amphorae. [1] Roughly at the same time, excavations began at the necropolis of Vulci, from where to amphorae of the group entered the Staatliche Antikensammlungen at Munich. Although Lord Northampton supported ...
Black-figure side of the amphora. Red-figure side of the amphora. The Belly Amphora in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen at Munich (inventory number 2301) is one of the most famous works by the Andokides Painter. The vase measures 53.5 cm high and 22.5 cm in diameter. It dates to between 520 and 510 BC and was discovered at Vulci.