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Athenian amphora with warriors and a battle scene

Image attached to GR.1.1889

An image of Vessel/Amphora, with (A) warriors leaving home, woman with child, (B) battle. Black-figured, clay, height 0.437 m, width 0.292 m, 600-501 B.C. Archaic Period. Production Place: Athens.

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Vessel/Amphora, with (A) warriors leaving home, woman with child, (B) battle. Black-figured, clay, height 0.437 m, width 0.292 m, 600-501 B.C. Archaic Period. Production Place: Athens.

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  • Accession Number: GR.1.1889
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/16.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Amy Jugg
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 768 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 131.65kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 16/1
  • Captured: 2010:11:08 14:13:10

Key words

6th Century amphora amphorae Ancient Greece animals antiquity Archaic Period Athenian Attic battle battle scene battlefield BC black-figured chariot charioteer container Fitz_ANT Greek handled horses male military neck-amphora pottery quadriga soldiers vessel warriors

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rgb(60,55,53), rgb(155,79,36), rgb(229,230,229), rgb(189,120,71), rgb(132,130,129), rgb(179,153,139), rgb(206,178,152), rgb(180,180,179), rgb(99,104,108), rgb(200,193,188), rgb(100,116,108)

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