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| Keywords: Greek - Fikellura Amphora - Walters 482114.jpg Fikellura ware derives its name from a site on Rhodes where one of the first examples was found but it is now believed that the pottery was made in Miletus a site on the coast of Asia Minor The braided guilloche interlacing bands pattern on the neck and the band of crescents above the foot are typically East Greek The main body of the vase is decorated with a delicate lattice pattern imitating fine embroidery ca 540 BC Archaic terracotta cm 38 20 h x diam accession number 48 2114 15111 Hesperia Art Robert E Hecht Jr Philadelphia date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum 1959 by purchase Museum purchase 1959 In Search of Ancient Treasure 40 Years of Collecting The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1978 place of origin Miletus in present-day Aydin Turkey Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek pottery in the Walters Art Museum Fikellura Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Ancient Greek Neck amphoras | ||||
