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Accession_Number

49.8.1

Shape

Mug

Shape_description

Unusual form; neck and body are identical to a shape 8M oinochoe (mug) in Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 22.632 (Padgett 1993, 211 no. 142, ill.), as if a fancier rim, handle, and lower part of the foot have been added to this piece.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Apulian

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

5YR 7/3

Decoration

Handle in two pieces and entwined in knot and extending out to sides along rim. Mouth is wide and has small rim with moulding around edge. Neck is black and smooth with a ridge at juncture with body. The body has shallow vertical ribs, with a cross incised under handle. Horizontal groove halfway down body. Stem is ruddled above foot and reserved, decorated with a black bad. Upper and lower edge of foot reserved. Foot is conical with reserved resting surface and base, except for a black band inside of foot.

Inscriptions

Condition

Intact but very small chips along the rim and body of mug. Small areas of paint chipped and deposit areas can also be found on the body as well as the base of the rim. Gloss is not lustrous. At parts on the body, gloss fired brown.

Technique/Style

Black glaze; Gnathian; overpainted

Provenance

Period

Early Hellenistic

Date

300-250

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2003.97.0951.jpg	Right side view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the mouth.
2003.97.0952.jpg	Top view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the mouth.
2003.97.0953.jpg	Underside view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the base.
2004.99.0020.jpg	Left side view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the knotted handle.
2004.99.0021.jpg	Back view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the knotted handle.
2004.99.0022.jpg	Right side view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the knotted handle.
2004.99.0023.jpg	Front view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the bulbous body shape.
2004.99.0024.jpg	Oblique view, from above, of the left side of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the ribbed body and knotted handle.
2004.99.0025.jpg	Top view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the knotted handle.
2004.99.0026.jpg	Top view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the knotted handle.
2004.99.0027.jpg	Bottom view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the partly ruddled and decorated underside.
2008.98.0422.jpg	Oblique view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the decoration on the belly of the vase and the knot on the handle.
2008.98.0423.jpg	Side view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the decoration on the belly and the knotted handle.
2010.98.0304.jpg	Oblique top view of a black glazed, Apulian mug, with a knotted handle.
2010.98.0305.jpg	Front view of a black-glazed, Apulian mug, with a knotted handle.
2010.98.0306.jpg	Side view of a black-glazed, Apulian mug, with a knotted handle.
2010.98.0307.jpg	Close-up detail of a black-glazed, Apulian mug, showing the knotted handle.
2010.98.0308.jpg	Front view of a black-glazed, Apulian mug, with a knotted handle.
2010.98.0309.jpg	Front view of a black-glazed, Apulian mug.
2010.98.0310.jpg	Top view of a black-glazed, Apulian mug, on its side, showing a knotted handle.
2010.98.0311.jpg	Bottom view of a black-glazed, Apulian mug.