oinochoe
- Museum number
- 1977,1207.13
- Description
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Pottery oinochoe.
Clay: orange-buff clay, white grits, mica, lustrous brown-black paint.
Shape: vertical neck, globular body, flat base; round handle.
Decoration: Neck fully coated. Body: in front, two horses, both tethered to the ring handles of a tripod cauldron serving as a manger, its bowl in silhouette; tangential dotted circle above, birds and stars in the field. Below, three wavy bands; band near base. On each flank, five concentric bands; band near base. On each flank, five concentric bands drawn freehand, each with a sixteen-point star in the centre. Large bird below handle root. Handle: decoration faded, but apparently as 1920.10-14.4 and 1877.12-7.12 9 (wavy stripe between verticals, loop around lower attachment).
- Production date
- 735BC-720BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 22 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- CVA:
Typical of this group are the swathes of lateral circles and the round handle, features which derive from a Cypriot prototype, perhaps indirectly (E. Gjerstad, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition IV.2 (Stockholm, 1948), 299-300 n.3, where cf. fig. 24.16b; Briese-Docter 35-7). The theme of two horses tied to a tripod appears to be an innovation of LG II (Rombos 266, and 489-90 no. 285). In a study of this group’s iconography, L. Schofield reasonably suggests a function for these oinochoai as prizes awarded at aristocratic games (Klados 239-47, esp. 242).
Bibliography: S. Benton, BSA 35 (1934-5), 103-4, no. 6, fig. 11a; GGP 74-6, XVI.9, pl. 13d; Klados 240 fig. 4.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Complete, paint worn.
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1850
- Acquisition notes
- Previously unregistered.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1977,1207.13
