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Oinochoe

Object Number:MS2492
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Attic
Provenience: Italy
Etruria
Orvieto
Manufacture Location: Attica
Date Made: ca. 500 BCE
Early Date: -550
Late Date: -450
Section:Mediterranean
Materials:Ceramic
Technique:Black Figure
Iconography:Maenad
Vines
Dance
Height: 17.5 cm
Outside Diameter:13.8 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896
Other Number:954 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

Description

Oinochoe shape IV. Unglazed: underside of disk foot and panel on front. Relief ring at base of neck painted red. Borders of panel: above, black tongue pattern; at each side vertical zig-zag line between two pairs of vertical lines. The scene in the panel is of two maenads dancing, one towards the left, the other towards the right, both facing inward, vines intwined around and above them.

Bibliography:

[Book] 1991. Gens antiquissima Italiae: Antichità dall'Umbria a New York.. Perugia. Electa/Editori Umbri Associati. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 427View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Beazley, John D. 1971. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Second Edition).. Oxford. Clarendon Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 191View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Beazley, John D. 1978. Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters.. New York. Hacker Art Books. ed. reprint. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 443, no. 9View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Collection] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 69, no. 69View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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