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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

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Right side view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the mouth.

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Top view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the mouth.

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Underside view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the base.

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Left side view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the knotted handle.

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Back view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the knotted handle.

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Right side view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the knotted handle.

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Front view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the bulbous body shape.

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Oblique view, from above, of the left side of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the ribbed body and knotted handle.

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Top view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the knotted handle.

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Top view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the knotted handle.

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Bottom view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the partly ruddled and decorated underside.

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Oblique view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the decoration on the belly of the vase and the knot on the handle.

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Side view of an Apulian black-glazed mug, showing the decoration on the belly and the knotted handle.

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Oblique top view of a black glazed, Apulian mug, with a knotted handle.

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Front view of a black-glazed, Apulian mug, with a knotted handle.

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Side view of a black-glazed, Apulian mug, with a knotted handle.

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Close-up detail of a black-glazed, Apulian mug, showing the knotted handle.

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Front view of a black-glazed, Apulian mug, with a knotted handle.

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Front view of a black-glazed, Apulian mug.

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Top view of a black-glazed, Apulian mug, on its side, showing a knotted handle.

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Bottom view of a black-glazed, Apulian mug.
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Beazley_DB
Height 10.9
Diameters Mouth 5.9; body 7.3; base 4.6
Handle_height 4.0
Other_dims.
Location Symposium
Edited_by Denise; Kinsey; Teifi
Date_edited 06.09.2002; 10.01.2006; 01.08.2006
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