Oinochoe
MS2493
Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery
From: Italy | Etruria
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS2493 |
Current Location | Greece Gallery - On Display |
Culture | Attic |
Provenience | Italy | Etruria |
Manufacture Location | Attica |
Period | Archaic Greek Period |
Date Made | ca. 515-500 BCE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Technique | Black Figure |
Iconography | Warrior | Youth | Spear | Horse | Warfare |
Description | Oinochoe shape II. Disk foot; underside flat except for central depression, profile of foot a quarter round. Wheel painted purple line at jucture of foot and lower wall. Body fully glazed; area below panel, wheel glazed; area external to edges of handle vertically glazed free hand. Reserved panel occupies area opposite of handle from lower wall to bottom of neck. Two purple lines are wheel painted at level of bottom edge panel. In panel, left to right, a fully armed warrior striding right, a youth holding two spears beside a horse, both facing right; a fully armed warrior facing left. Details in incision, purple and white. Along the upper egde of panel a row of vestigial tongue pattern. Two round ridges 0.015 m. apart encircle base of neck, the lower painted purple. Between them in area above panel a horizontal ivy pattern in black on reserved ground. Trefoil lip. |
Height | 23.5 cm |
Outside Diameter | 14 cm |
Credit Line | Museum Purchase; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896 |
Other Number | 1215 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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