oinochoe
- Museum number
- 1912,0626.109
- Description
-
Fragment of a giant pottery oinochoe.
Clay: orange-buff clay, white grits, mica, semi-lustrous brown-black paint
Shape: everted trefoil lip, tall and narrow vertical neck, ridge at junction with shoulder; broad strap handle with two vertical grooves, joined to the neck by a strut.
Decoration: Dots round lip. Neck: band, latticed triangles and dots, hatched serpentine motif with dots and small circles in the field, dotted lozenge chain; dots on ridge below. Handle: between the grooves, panels of double diagonal cross, alternating with bars; dots down the edges
- Production date
- 740BC-730BC
- Dimensions
-
Height: 19.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- CVA:
The reinforcing strut, unusual for this shape, is more typical of the Attic Late Geometric pitcher.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- neck and handle fr., paint worn.
- Acquisition date
- 1912
- Acquisition notes
- Collection presented in exchange for cast of Caryatid from Erechtheion.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1912,0626.109