cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/38.4.7
Accession_Number | 38.4.7 |
Shape | Hydria |
Shape_description | One vertical and two horizontal handles. Mouth tapers to long, wide neck. Vertical handle from top of shoulder almost to top of neck. |
Material | Terracotta |
Fabric | Attic |
Fabric_description | |
Munsell_color | 7.5YR 8/2 |
Decoration | Inside is reserved with black rim inside and with crosses on the outside. Handle has horizontal bars and crosses. On neck, grazing horse with degenerate long-legged bird between each pair of legs. From shoulder to base bands, lozenge and other ornaments in the field, flanked by vertical lines, slanting bars and horizontal zigzags. Horizontal handles, attached halfway down body, decorated with vertical bars. Lower part of base is black to foot. Base is concave and reserved. |
Inscriptions | |
Condition | Pieced together and restored in parts. Paint badly worn. |
Technique/Style | Protoattic |
Provenance | Said to be from a cemetery east of Athens |
Period | Late Geometric / Early Archaic |
Date | 725-675 |
Dating_details | |
Artist | Wuerzburg Group |
Attribution | Attributed by E. Brann |
Image | |
Comparanda | |
Bibliography | CVA Reading 1, pl. 8.8; E. Brann, AJA 63 (1959) 178 ff.; Theodora Rombos, The Iconography of Attic Late Geometric II Pottery (Jonsered 1988) 221, table 31. |
Archive_Ref | |
Beazley_DB | |
Height | 35.5 |
Diameters | Mouth 11.0; neck 7.5; body 20.0; base 8.5 |
Handle_height | 9.5 |
Other_dims. | |
Location | 3.1 |
Edited_by | Denise; Karen |
Date_edited | 06.09.2002; 31.03.2004 |