English: object type / vase shape: footed neck-amphora with double handles on the shoulder

- decoration technique: painted dark on light - description: A-B: row of aquatic birds - shoulder panel A: goddess (Artemis) standing frontally, 2 birds sitting on her outspread arms, fish painted on her dress, fish, head of bull, 2 confronted lions - shoulder panel B: large eagle with outspread wings, hare, smaller birds - production place: Boeotia - painter / group: unattributed - period / date: subgeometric, early orientalizing, ca. 680-670 BC - material: pottery (clay) - height: 86.5 cm - findspot: (surroundings of) Thebes - museum / inventory number: Athens, National Archaeological Museum 220 - bibliography: John Nicolas Coldstream, Greek Geometric Pottery: A Survey of Ten Local Styles and Their Chronology, 1968, 205.16 - Anne Ruckert, Frühe Keramik Böotiens, Form und Dekoration der Vasen des späten 8. und frühen 7. Jahrhunderts, Bern 1976, cat. BA 8

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