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Oinochoe

Object Number:MS4866
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Attic
Provenience: Italy
Etruria
Orvieto
Manufacture Location: Attica
Period: Archaic Greek Period
Date Made: 540-500 BCE
Early Date: -540
Late Date: -500
Section:Mediterranean
Materials:Ceramic
Technique:Black Figure
Iconography:Hermes
Athena
Dionysos
Satyr
Couch
Furniture
Height: 15 cm
Outside Diameter:14 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898

Description

Oinochoe, perhaps shape II. Section and fragments from lower wall to lower neck are preserved. Two relief rings around lower neck with a net pattern in black glaze and white in between. Full breadth of upper panel preserved. Border of tongue pattern above, and at sides vertical ivy between two vertical lines. In panel, parts of, left to right: Hermes and Athena (both facing right); Dionysos (on couch) and a standing satyr (both facing left). Vines above and among the participants.

Bibliography:

[Book] 1991. Gens antiquissima Italiae: Antichità dall'Umbria a New York.. Perugia. Electa/Editori Umbri Associati. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 436View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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