oinochoe
- Museum number
- 1877,1207.12
- Description
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Pottery oinochoe.
Clay: orange-buff clay, much mica, white grits, lustrous black paint.
Shape: vertical neck, globular body, flat base; round handle.
Decoration: Neck fully coated. Body: in front, two horses, both tethered to a manger with hatched upper part, supported on two vertical legs connected by hatched diagonal struts. Kneeling goat in the field above, dot rosettes and swastikas as filling ornaments. Three thick wavy bands below, band around base. On each flank, five concentric bands drawn freehand, with eight-point star at centre. At the back, a silhouette bird between the circle sets. Handle: wavy stripe between verticals, loop around lower attachment.
- Production date
- 725BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 15 centimetres
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Height: 23.40 centimetres
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Weight: 662 grammes
- Curator's comments
- CVA:
L. Schofield (Klados 241-2) suggests that a rod tripod of Cypriot type may be depicted here, as the support for the manger. See, most recently, M. Moore (Metropolitan Museum Journal 39 (2004), 44-5, fig. 15), who comments on the dual function of tripods and cauldrons, as prizes and mangers.
Bibliography: GGP 74-6, XVI.10; P. Kahane, AntK 16 (1973), pl. 28.1; Rombos 263, 266, table 38; 489, no. 284; Klados 240 figs. 1 and 6.
- Location
- On display (G13/dc1)
- Condition
- Complete
- Acquisition date
- 1877
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1877,1207.12
