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Accession_Number

REDMG:1951.130.1

Shape

Oinochoe

Shape_description

Oinochoe with trefoil lip. Broad neck, widening into grooved trefoil lip, from the back of which extends a vertical tripartite strap handle that reattaches at the middle of the shoulder; broad ridge at the bottom of the neck to which is attached the ovoid body, tapering to a broad ring base, convex on the exterior, with a flat resting surface.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Etruscan

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

7.5YR 5/6

Decoration

Black band on interior, reaching to ca. 1.0 cm. below the lip; black neck and handle. Shoulder: reserved tongues, alternatively red and black at centre, on a black band (tongues extend partly over the upper ridge, on the right side). Body: komos comprised of eight nude male dancers with purple hair and incisions delineating hair, eyes, muscular and other bodily details; under handle, black column krater (decorated with two incised lines on shoulder, purple band and incised rays band between incised lines on body); in field between dancers, seven rosettes with single or double incised central circle and incised petals. Below, broad black band between two black lines; black rays emerge from base. Foot black on exterior, otherwise reserved.

Inscriptions

Condition

Intact, but with two cracks across the center. Missing surface chips from the body, and underside. Decoration eroded, especially on lip.

Technique/Style

Black figure; Pseudo-Chalcidian

Provenance

Period

Late Archaic

Date

525-500

Dating_details

Artist

Polyphemus Group

Attribution

Banti notes a similarity between the dancers and those on Vienna 1041 (neck amphora) attributed to the Polyphemos Group (see Rumpf, Chalkidische Vasen pl. 209).

Image

2003.93.0142.jpg	Right side view of an Etruscan black-figure oinochoe, showing youths dancing.
2003.93.0143.jpg	Back of an Etruscan black-figure oinochoe, showing a depiction of a column krater beneath the ribbed handle.
2003.93.0144.jpg	Front view of an Etruscan black-figure oinochoe, showing youths dancing.
2003.93.0375.jpg	Right side view of an Etruscan black-figure oinochoe, showing youths dancing.
2003.93.0376.jpg	Back of an Etruscan black-figure oinochoe, showing a depiction of a column krater beneath the ribbed handle.
2003.93.0377.jpg	Front view of an Etruscan black-figure oinochoe, showing youths dancing.
2004.99.0345.jpg	Front view of an Etruscan black-figure oinochoe, showing youths dancing.
2004.99.0346.jpg	Front view of an Etruscan black-figure oinochoe, showing youths dancing and the handle.
2004.99.0347.jpg	Front view of an Etruscan black-figure oinochoe, showing youths dancing.
2004.99.0348.jpg	Front view of an Etruscan black-figure oinochoe, showing youths dancing.
2004.99.0349.jpg	Oblique view of an Etruscan black-figure oinochoe, showing youths dancing.
2004.99.0350.jpg	Oblique view of an Etruscan black-figure oinochoe, showing youths dancing.
2004.99.0351.jpg	Front view of part an Etruscan black-figure oinochoe, showing youths dancing.
2004.99.0352.jpg	Front view of part an Etruscan black-figure oinochoe, showing youths dancing.
2004.99.0353.jpg	Front view of part an Etruscan black-figure oinochoe, showing youths dancing.
2004.99.0354.jpg	Top view of the bottom of an Etruscan black-figure oinochoe, showing the base.
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