chous
- Museum number
- 1856,0512.12
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured chous (jug).
Design red and white on a black panel, with egg-moulding above and wave-pattern below. Trefoil mouth.
Girl playing with tortoise: A girl to left, with long hair tied in a bunch over the forehead, short loose chiton, and under-garment with spotted sleeves, anklet on left leg, and sandals with white tops; her chiton has engrailed borders and stripe down the front on which are white dots, and is embroidered with crosses and circles of dots; round her right shoulder is a belt from which hang amulets (?) and a bulla (?). In left hand she holds a white oinochoe; in right she holds out a tortoise, by a string tied to its hind-leg, to a spaniel to right which looks up at it. On the left is an embroidered taenia; before the dog, a plant; on the right a stele on a white base, on which stands a large white cantharos. The ground-lines are indicated.
- Production date
- 360BC-350BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 20.32 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Millingen, Vases de Coghill, pl. 44; Daremberg and Saglio, Dict. des Antiqs. i. p. 695; Baumeister, p. 779.
- Location
- On display (G69/dc4)
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1856,0512.12
