Olpe

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.