Oinochoe

MS5692

Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS5692
Current Location Greece Gallery - On Display
Culture Attic
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location Attica
Period Archaic Greek Period
Date Made 525-475 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Black Figure
Iconography Dionysos | Maenad | Grafitto
Description

Oinochoe shape I. Intact. Fully black glazed except for underside of foot and the panel on front (opposite the handle). In panel is a seated Dionysos, facing left, mantle around legs and lower torso and drawn up over his proper left shoulder. On either side of him is a standing female figure, no doubt a maenad, facing inward. Vines around and above the 3 figures. Tongue pattern above; at sides two vertical lines of dots bordered by vertical lines of dots bordered by vertical lines. On base two Etruscan graffiti.

Height 19.5 cm
Outside Diameter 13 cm
Credit Line Gift of Nina C. Lea, 1921

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