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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