guttus
- Museum number
- 1890,0731.29
- Description
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Pottery Attic red figure guttus (oil flask with strainer) with a spout in form of a lion's head; wheel-made and with moulded and incised details; squat body, slightly splaying sides, with a convex top; flat base; the central strainer has a single hole in the middle and two outer rings of perforations; loop handle (mostly restored); vessel made of fine buff clay, decorated in red figure technique with animals on the shoulder below the strainer.
On one side of the vessel is a couchant lion, facing left, whose head is formed by the spout: the details of the head are well rendered, with incised strokes for the mane; on the other side are two couchant animals facing each other: the beast on the left has pointed ears and a long tail, jaws wide open and a determined stare emphasised by the profile view of the face with a single eye (possibly a lion); its opposite number is more crudely drawn, and is either shown in profile, or else has two snouts/heads.
Two Cypriot Syllabic signs are incised on the underside of the base.
- Production date
- 470BC-400BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 8.25 centimetres
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Height: 3.81 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Only the site (B) is given in Munro and Tubbs' description of this item but the tomb number can be deduced from its stated association with GR 1890,7-31.28 and 1890,7-31, 32 (Munro and Tubbs 1890, 48-9).
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc14)
- Condition
- Most of the handle missing.
- Acquisition date
- 1890
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1890,0731.29
