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cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/22.3.41

Accession_Number

22.3.41

Shape

Jug

Shape_description

Single triangular fragment preserves part of the base of a closed shape, perhaps a jug, with a flat bottom.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Daunian

Fabric_description

Light pink

Munsell_color

5YR 6/6

Decoration

Painted exterior decoration in dark brown and dark red on a cream ground. Below a broad brown band is a red band, between two white lines, and then another brown band. The lower body is decorated with a series of vertical brown lines, between pairs of red and brown bands, all between two curvilinear patterns each comprised of two concentric circles around a single dot. This entire motif is enclosed in a lens-shaped space, between dark brown patches, underlined by more red bands between white lines. The flat bottom is decorated with a curvilinear diamond crossing a cross, both in dark brown, inscribed in a dark brown circle.

Inscriptions

Condition

Single fragment, roughly triangular preserving most of the flat bottom and approximately 1/4 of the arc of the lower part of the body. Large crack lengthwise down the fragment. Some whitish-gray deposits on the exterior and brownish-gray deposits on the interior.

Technique/Style

Polychrome

Provenance

Ruvo

Period

Late Classical / Early Hellenistic

Date

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

B.A. Sparkes

Image

2004.98.0061.jpg	Front view of a Daunian jug fragment, showing the interior.
2004.98.0062.jpg	Oblique view of part of a Daunian jug fragment, showing the interior.
2004.98.0063.jpg	Top view of a Daunian jug fragment, showing exterior painted decoration.
2004.98.0064.jpg	Top view of a Daunian jug fragment, showing exterior painted decoration.
2004.98.0065.jpg	Front view of a Daunian jug fragment, showing arc.
2004.99.0529.jpg	Top view of a Daunian jug fragment, showing exterior painted decoration.
2004.99.0530.jpg	Top view of a Daunian jug fragment, showing the interior.