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Accession_Number

50.4.5

Shape

Beaked oinochoe

Shape_description

Type 7a. Cut-away neck, with a vertical strap handle attached to the lowest part, rejoining the body at the bottom of the shoulder; cylindrical neck sharply joining sloping shoulder, which curves into the ovoid upper body, tapering into a cylindrical lower body; raised base; reserved on the interior, underside and resting surface.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Etruscan

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

7.5YR 7/6

Decoration

Interior of the neck until almost the beginning of the shoulder black. The rest of the interior reserved. On the exterior, neck and handle black. The lower part of the neck is decorated with a row of eggs. The lower part of the handle, at the height of the shoulder bears part of the decoration of a palmette the rest of which covers the body and is hown upside down. The body is decorated in black figure with a palmette-lotus frieze below with double-chevron palmette heart. The lower part of the body remains black fired brownish.

Inscriptions

Condition

Intact. Pattern badly worn away. Chip to rim at front and a few to base. Part of the decoration fired brownish. White deposits covering the entire underside of the foot. Gloss worn at aprts on the neck. Small chips and scratches on the body.

Technique/Style

Black figure

Provenance

Said to be from Pompeii

Period

Late Classical

Date

400-375

Dating_details

Artist

Group of Toronto 495

Attribution

Beazley 1947, 182 named this group of Etruscan vases decorated with (floral) patterns after one of the several similar type 7 oinochoai in Toronto. Look for ref. to Harari ?

Image

2003.92.0314.jpg	Right side view of an Etruscan beaked oinochoe, showing handle, cut away rim and palmette decoration.
2003.92.0315.jpg	Front view of an Etruscan beaked oinochoe, showing palmette decoration.
2003.92.0316.jpg	Left side view of an Etruscan beaked oinochoe, showing handle, cut away rim and palmette decoration.
2003.92.0317.jpg	Back view of an Etruscan beaked oinochoe, showing the strap handle.
2003.92.0318.jpg	Oblique top view of an Etruscan beaked oinochoe, showing the mouth and top of handle.
2003.92.0319.jpg	Bottom view of an Etruscan beaked oinochoe, showing the reserved base and bottom portion of body.
	Oblique top view of the left side of a beaked Etruscan oinochoe.
	Right side view of a beaked Etruscan oinochoe, showing the handle to the left.
	Back view of a beaked Etruscan oinochoe, showing the handle.
	Right side view of a beaked Etruscan oinochoe, showing the handle to the right.
	Top view of a beaked Etruscan oinochoe, showing the mouth and top of handle.
	Bottom view of a beaked Etruscan oinochoe, showing the base.
2008.99.0567.jpg	Oblique top view of a beaked Etruscan oinochoe, showing the mouth and top of handle.
2008.99.0568.jpg	Left side view of a beaked Etruscan oinochoe, showing the handle to the left.
2008.99.0569.jpg	Back view of a beaked Etruscan oinochoe, showing the handle.
2008.99.0570.jpg	Right side view of a beaked Etruscan oinochoe, showing the handle, to right.
2008.99.0571.jpg	Front view of a beaked Etruscan oinochoe.
2008.99.0572.jpg	Top view of a beaked Etruscan oinochoe, showing the mouth and top of handle.
2008.99.0573.jpg	Bottom view of a beaked Etruscan oinochoe, showing the base.