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Accession_Number

REDMG:1935.87.7

Shape

Oinochoe

Shape_description

Shape 3; trefoil mouth

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Apulian

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

10YR 7/3

Decoration

Mouth is blacked just inside rim, leaving interior walls reserved. Handle, back of neck, and back of body are all black. Wave pattern on neck forms upper part of a reserved frame around a figural scene. This scene depicts a horned youth, running to right but facing profile to left, with cloak over his left arm, carrying a tray in his right hand. Tendrils each side of him emerge from the base and four rosettes and one fillet are in the field. Added white and yellow on horns, rosettes, tray and head dress. Foot is black on outside and the base is reserved.

Inscriptions

Condition

Intact. Misfired slightly on back of object. Untidy on base. Much white detail remains visible.

Technique/Style

Red figure

Provenance

Period

Early Hellenistic

Date

325-300

Dating_details

Artist

B.M. Centaur Group

Attribution

Trendall and Cambitoglou, RFVA 2.622.150 and 2.622.165, attribute this oinochoe, and a similar one in Reading, RM.87.35.7, to the B.M. Centaur Group, artists in the circle of the Darius Painter and the Underworld Painter.

Image

2003.27.0010.jpg	Oinochoe, front view. Shows youth, carrying tray, with cloth over his other arm.
2003.93.0023.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure oinochoe, showing a youth running to the right.
2003.94.0015.jpg	Oblique view, from above, of an Apulian red-figure oinochoe.
2003.94.0016.jpg	Right side view of an Apulian red-figure oinochoe.
2003.94.0017.jpg	Back view of an Apulian red-figure oinochoe.
2003.94.0018.jpg	Left side view of an Apulian red-figure oinochoe.
2003.94.0019.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure oinochoe, showing a youth running to the right.
2003.97.0983.jpg	Bottom view of an Apulian red-figure oinochoe, showing the reserved base.