jug
- Museum number
- 1926,0628.9
- Description
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Pottery jug in Bichrome Ware with a figural scene of a merchant ship; wheelmade; ovoid-biconical body on a flat base; narrow neck, splaying opwards; trefoil mouth with a plain rim; single strap handle from shoulder to rim. Made of fine buff clay fired a cream-buff colour; decorated with brown and orange matt paint: the scene shows a schematic, cutaway view of a ship: two amphorae with bull-eye motifs on the body (resembling SCE TYpe X) sit in the hold flanking a central mast; on one side a sailor, standing on the poop deck and facing forward towards the viewer, maniplates what appears to be a round anchor; to the left of the amphora at the stern end, another sailor controls two oars or the helm, while a third marriner, outside the stern at the back, is shown defecating on a large fish (perhaps a shark or tuna) following the ship; the fish is schematically shown, with exaggerated fins and a large profile eye.
- Production date
- 750 BC-600 BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 15.90 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G72/dc14)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1995, Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum, Ancient Seafaring
2001 15 Jun-31 Oct, Barcelona, Bread, Oil and Wine
2014 - 2015 15 Sept - 4 Jan, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, From Assyria to Iberia
- Acquisition date
- 1926
- Acquisition notes
- Lot 87 at Sotheby's sale.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1926,0628.9
