oinochoe
- Museum number
- 1849,0518.18
- Description
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Pottery oinochoe decorated on the body with crested herons, on the shoulder with horses, and on the neck, dancing men and women, perhaps an excerpt from the so-called Crane Dance of Theseus and Ariadne.
- Production date
- 700BC-680BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 35.50 centimetres
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Weight: 1.17 kilograms
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Width: 17.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Ducati, Pericle. Storia della ceramica greca. Firenze: Instituto di Edizioni Artistiche, 1922. Vol. 1, p. 141, figs. 116, 117.
Coldstream, J.N. ‘A Figured Geometric Oinochoe from Italy.’ Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 15. London: The Institute, 1968. p. 86 ff., pl. XI.
Martelli Cristofani, Marina. La Ceramica degli Etruschi: la pittura vascolare. Novara: Istituto Geografico de Agostini, c1987. no. 25.
Montelius, Oscar, La Civilisation primitive en Italie depuis l'introduction des métaux, Stockholm : Imprimerie Royale, 1895-1910. pl. 381-4.
Williams, Dyfri. ‘Greek potters and their descendants in Campania and southern Etruria, c. 720-630 BC.’ Italian Iron Age Artefacts in the British Museum. Papers of the Sixth British Museum Classical Colloquium, 1982, edited by Judith Swaddling. London: British Museum Publications Ltd, 1986. p. 295-304. fig. 13.
- Location
- On display (G73/dc1)
- Acquisition date
- 1849
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1849,0518.18