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There are 11 objects for which Decoration contains → fire
2007.4.75 Some sort of red glaze or paint; fire damage makes identification more difficult
2009.9.36 A naked man wearing an aureole, holding a scepter, standing next to a fire. There is a half moon on the left side. Cast number: 50
26.12.19 Handle black on outside and reserved underneath. Shoulder: rays and long, thin lotus buds; black band at join with body. Top of bod: two rows black dots bordered by smaller white dots. Body: ram in cauldron set on tripod over a fire, flanked by two females holding wreaths on either side. Below is a broad black band with a thin band between reserved bands either side. Lower step of foot black; base reserved. This is probably the scene in which Medea tricked the daughters of Peleus: she killed an old ram, cut up its body and threw it in a boiling cauldron. Medea, a sorceress, restored the ram's life and made it young. Whereupon Pelias' daughters kill Pelias and toss his body into the cauldron. Medea did not, however, restore Pelias' life and was driven out of Iolcus.
26.2.24 Fragment A: interior glazed black; exterior: palmette and lotus frieze with added red between pairs of narrow glaze (fire brown) bands; below, black with traces of two narrow red bands. Fragment B: interior glazed black; exterior: lotus and palmette frieze with added red on calyxes; below, pair of narrow glaze (fired brown) bands; below, black with traces of two narrow red bands.
26.2.38 Glaze fired brown; pale slip; interior: from outside, part undetermined black fire decoration; black band; maeander frieze between two wide black bands with added red bands lined in white; exterior: ring foot glazed; on underside, two narrow bands.
REDMG:1935.87.28 Inside black, reserved line at lip. Two kylix handles, black on the top and reserved underrneath. Main picture is in handle zone and is similar on both sides. Shows Dionysos seated, flanked by palmettes with vines running either side of him. Detail picked out in red and white. Foot rind reserved outside, black inside. Base reserved with central dot, small ring in dripped glaze, thick black ring and near circumference also fire circles in thinned glaze.
TEMP.2007.2 29 Black glaze with fire damage
TEMP.2007.2.49 Black glaze, damaged by fire and chipped
TEMP.2007.2.51 Black glaze, possible fire damage
TEMP.2007.2.52 Black glaze, fire damage
TEMP.2007.2.57 Black glaze with fire damage
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