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Description: | Condition - handle and part of spout are missing, visible restoration at neck and base, cracking around top of the body. Black body with five red figures. Decoration : "10" written in black ink on one of the male figures., Oinoche, a single handled jug. This example, with a black body, has been damaged and is missing parts of the beak spout and all of the handle and base. The squat body is painted black with a band of ovolo, painted in red with the detail picked out in black and tan/white. Below it a small tan/white series of bars and dots. The main body depicts figures in red. A woman seated to the right in himation, wearing a beaded necklace with her hair tied up behind. In her right hand she holds up a mirror(?) behind her head, while her left is out stretched towards a winged Eros, also with his hair tied up behind, wearing three bracelets on his left arm. He holds out two phiale (or possibly cymbals) towards her. Behind him, in field, a draped fillet, followed by a seated naked male, wearing a diadem wreath. He extends his left leg towards Eros and holds out a phiale in his right hand and behind him, a wreath in his left. Behind him is a seated female in himation, with her hair up behind her, also holding out a phiale in her right hand, while resting her left on the edge of her seat. To the rear of her is a prancing naked male, wearing a band or diadem on his head. He extends a club(?) in his right hand and cradles a sceptre in his left. To the rear of the vessel, below the handle scar, are three large running palmettes reversed. Below the main decoration , a register of white dots above a red band. The remaining thrid of the vessel has no decoration. The scar at the base indicates the pedestal was cleanly broken off, with only a few very slight cracks visible on the paintwork in this area.,
Accession number: NCM 1921-31 | Subjects: | GREEK food and drink? objects of indeterminate use (containers) ceramics APULIAN | Temporal: | 399BC-200BC | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | ITALY? | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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