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Accession_Number REDMG:1953.25.50
Shape Oinochoe
Shape_description Deep round mouth with concave lip, slightly overhanging attached to a high swung vertical ribbed handle, which reattaches at the shoulder. Below the mouth is a short neck with a ridge, a globular body, slightly flattened, and a low, sharply angled foot, with a flat base. Corinth round-mouthed oinochoe, type A, group i: see Corinth 13, 131 fig. 14, 134.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Corinthian
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 10YR 7/4
Decoration Black glaze, fired red in places. Red band on lower part of lip; traces of white palmette, with tendrils, on shoulder; red line between two white lines at shoulder; red band just below middle of body. Underside reserved.
Inscriptions
Condition Surface worn, chipped, and pitted (one hole penetrates the right side of the body); added white faded.
Technique/Style Black glaze; overpainted; added white
Provenance Found in Pompeii, 1870
Period Late Archaic / Early Classical
Date 500-450
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image
Right side view of a Corinthian round-mouthed oinochoe.

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Left side view of a Corinthian round-mouthed oinochoe.

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Oblique view of part of a Corinthian round-mouthed oinochoe, showing traces of white palmette decoration.

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Oblique view of part of a Corinthian round-mouthed oinochoe, showing traces of white palmette decoration.

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Oblique view of part of a Corinthian round-mouthed oinochoe.

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Oblique view of part of a Corinthian round-mouthed oinochoe, showing traces of white palmette decoration.

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Oblique view of part of a Corinthian round-mouthed oinochoe, showing traces of white palmette decoration.

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Oblique view of part of a Corinthian round-mouthed oinochoe, showing traces of white palmette decoration.

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Oblique view of part of a Corinthian round-mouthed oinochoe, showing traces of white palmette decoration.

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Front view of part of a Corinthian round-mouthed oinochoe, showing traces of white palmette decoration.

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Front view of a Corinthian round-mouthed oinochoe.

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Front view of a Corinthian round-mouthed oinochoe, showing handle.

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Front view of a Corinthian round-mouthed oinochoe.

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Front view of a Corinthian round-mouthed oinochoe.

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Oblique view of a Corinthian round-mouthed oinochoe.

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Front view of the bottom of a Corinthian round-mouthed oinochoe, showing base.
Comparanda Cf. Reading 34.2.3 and Reading RM.25.53.48. For palmette cf. Reading RM.25.53.59 and Langlotz 1932, pl. 9.112. See also Corinth 13, 136.
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Beazley_DB
Height 14.7
Diameters Rim 6.0, neck 3.4, body 11.5, foot 8.2
Handle_height 7.0
Other_dims. H. lip 2.0; H. to rim 12.0; H. lip 2.0; W. handle 1.6
Location Excavation shed top.1
Edited_by Denise; Amy; Kinsey; Jayne
Date_edited 12.07.2002; 18.08.2004; 18.01.2006; 16.02.2022
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