oinochoe
- Museum number
- 1865,0103.31
- Description
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Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (wine-jug). Grooved handle; mouth circular, with flat rim. Design black on a red panel; purple accessories.
Carriage to right drawn by two mules, one of which has drapery over its back. Seated in front, with feet resting on a board, are two figures, a beardless male figure driving, with goad and reins, in long himation, and a female (?) on his right wrapped in a purple himation. At the back is a bearded figure in long purple chiton, looking back. The body of the biga is incised with a pattern; the wheels are of the archaic type.
- Production date
- 560BC-550BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 15.24 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Cab. Pourtales, pl. viii. p. 114. For the figures, and the style of the wheels, cf. as Vase Β130.
- Location
- On display (G69/dc25)
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1865,0103.31
