Plakettenvase: Crete Or Alexandria.

Broken all around.

Fragment of wall of large closed vessel, probably amphora or hydria; traces of ribbing at left and right edges of fragment. Nike with left leg forward holds oval shield to her left, her right arm raised over her head to grasp it. Windblown drapery. Hard, light brownish gray fabric (10YR 6/2) with many red, white, and black inclusions and some mica; traces of black glaze.

The same Nike is known from a plaster cast from Memphis (Rubensohn 1911, no. 34, pp. 47--49, pl. IV). For seemingly identical appliqués on ribbed amphoras see Breccia 1932, p. 35, pl. XXIV:88; CVA, Brussels 3 [Belgium 3], pl. 2 [140]:19; Rubensohn 1911, p. 48, fig. 4; Dohrn 1985, p. 98, pl. 75:1; Züchner 1950--1951, p. 190, figs. 23, 25; Siebert 1978, pl. 63, lower right. These belong to two groups of amphoras thought to be of either Alexandrian or Cretan manufacture (Dohrn 1985, pp. 91--100).