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Description: | A water jug with a flaring mouth and a three ribbed handle flanked by two vertical volutes. Painted in black slip with crimson details on a buff ground. Decorated with four animal friezes between broad bands of tricolour scales, comprising lions, goats and a swan between two sphinxes, more lions, and running greyhounds. It is typical of high quality early Corinthian export ware.
Material: earthenware
Material: slip
olpe made in Greece, Europe, 620-600 BC, (1885.21Aa2). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.12163 | Go to resource |
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