Olpe

MS5714

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS5714
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Late Corinthian
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location Corinth
Creator Lotus-Cross Painter
Period Late Corinthian Period
Date Made 570-550 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Iconography Nude Male | Sphinxes
Description

Olpe with trefoil mouth. Foot an inverted echinus in form. Body an elongated ovoid, continuous in profile to trefoil lip. Double handle which arches above the level of the lip and down to it. The panel of figured decoration extends from one side of the handle around to just beyond the middle of the front, i.e. beyond the point opposite the handle. Above the panel are two rows of decoration: above, tongue pattern; below, broken maeander. In the center of the panel a nude bearded man with a spear in right hand runs toward the right, head looking back to left. He also wears a baldric with scabbard. He is flanked by sphinxes, seated, posed outward but head back facing inward. Buff clay. Most of black glaze missing because of over-cleaning. Two reserved triangles on side opposite panel.

Height 29 cm
Outside Diameter 9.8 cm

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