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English: object type / vase shape: Pseudo-Chalkidian neck-amphora with ovoid body

- description neck A: 2 confronted cocks - body A: sphinx, hoplite putting on helmet, hoplite, dog, youth putting on the reins on a horse: warriors arming and setting out (myhological scene?) - neck B: 2 confronted lions, looking outwards - body B: lion between 2 sphinxes - production place: Messina (?) - painter / group: Group of the Polyphemos-Amphora - period / date: ripe / late archaic, ca. 530 BC - material: pottery (clay) - height: 34.6 cm - findspot: Maremma toscana (probably from a necropolis): market at Sovana - museum / inventory number: Firenze, Museo Archaeologico Nazionale 3776; formerly: Firenze, Uffizi, Regia Galleria 1671 - bibliography: Andreas Rumpf, Chalkidische Vasen, Berlin, Leipzig 1927, 160.164-166

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