tankard
- Museum number
- 1916,0108.1
- Description
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Pottery tankard.
Clay: orange-buff clay, some mica, semilustrous red-brown paint.
Shape: everted lip, tall concave neck passing smoothly into low squat body, disc foot; strap handle rising above rim and linked to neck by a strut.
Decoration: Groups of bars on rim. Neck: central meander between lateral metopes containing rampant goats, a heraldic pair to the left, a single animal to the right. As ‘triglyphs’, columns of double chevrons and diagonal bars. Dots below. Shoulder: latticed triangles, outlined; lines, paint near base. Handle: eight-point star panels alternating with bars. Two lines inside rim.
- Production date
- 740BC-730BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 10.50 centimetres (of rim)
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Height: 14 centimetres (without handle)
- Curator's comments
- CVA:
In Attic LG vase-painting the rampant goat is a very rare alternative to the usual kneeling or striding poses for that animal (Rombos 38-53, tables 2-4). It is especially associated with the Near Eastern theme of a pair of goats flanking a sacred Tree of Life in a heraldic composition, a theme developed by the Euboean Cesnola workshop (J.N. Coldstream, BICS 18 [1971], 1-15, pl. 1a,b). The only two Attic parallels for the rampant goat, both LG Ia and both showing antithetical pairs with a central tree, are on a kantharos exported to Kition (Larnaca 1498) and on the pyxis Stockholm 1651 (J.N. Coldstream, RDAC 1994, 155-9, n. 23, fig. 1, and pl. 29.1-3).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Complete, mended.
- Acquisition date
- 1916
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1916,0108.1