olpe
- Museum number
- 1867,0508.1288
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured olpe (jug).
Design red on black ground, with white accessories. On the neck, vine with bunches of grapes.
Aegipan and Echo dancing, turned to the front; Aegipan has goat's horns, and body from the waist downwards, and wears a wreath. His hands are raised; in left he holds up Echo's right hand. She has hair in a bunch, open beaded cap, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long transparent schistos chiton with border down the left side; she holds it together in left hand. On the left are a thyrsos ending in a pine-cone from which hangs a taenia, and a laurel-branch; on the right a similar thyrsos from which hang a tympanon and taenia, and a laurel-branch.
- Production date
- 330BC-310BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 13.70 centimetres
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Height: 23.80 centimetres
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Height: 26.67 centimetres
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Weight: 447 grammes
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Musee Blacas, pl. 23, p. 69; Panofka, Bild. Ant. Leb. pl. 9, fig. 1; Müller-Wieseler, Denkm. d. a. Kunst, ii. 43, 543.
- Location
- On display (G73/dc18)
- Condition
- Injured.
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1867,0508.1288
