dinos
- Museum number
- 1888,0601.460.e
- Description
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Upper body sherd of Chian Wild Goat Style pottery dinos; thickening at top break; interior reserved; exterior slipped white; from top, broken maeander frieze running left; painted decoration consisting of ram ( head, dotted neck, chest and forelegs remaining), to right; pendant triangle and roundel, swastika and elaborate rosettes as filling ornament.
- Production date
- 625BC-600BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 6.50 centimetres
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Thickness: 0.60 centimetres
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Width: 6.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- According to Lemos, the sherd may come from either a dinos or an oinochoe since it is unusual to have three or four friezes on dinoi (Lemos 1991, 19-20). However, this sherd belongs to the same vessel as British Museum 1888,0601.499.e, 1924,1201.20, 1888,0601.459, 1888,0601.460.f and 1888,0601.460.g which clearly show that it is a dinos with at least four friezes.
Williams notes that Chian Wild Goat Style dinoi sherds are often mistaken for oinochoai because of the lack of slip on the interior surface.
Lemos describes the sherd as part of the Group of the Aphrodite Bowl, rather than as by the painter of the bowl, because the sherd displays a greater amount of variety in the filling ornaments, albeit similar to those on the Aphrodite Bowl (Lemos 1991, 74-5). Additionally she describes British Museum 1888,0601.459, from the same dinos, as being in the style of the Würzburg chalices, but to be dated later than those chalices because she considers the style of the drawing to be debased and because of the elementary and isolated interior decoration (Lemos 1991, 72-3). However, the filling ornament on this dinos is not as expertly and evenly executed as that on the Aphrodite Bowl.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1888
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1888,0601.460.e
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1924,1201.1252 (Re-registered in error.)
- Joined objects
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Associated Group: G16283 (6 objects)