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There are 49 objects for which Decoration contains → ornament
12.10.1 Mask of woman in high relief with wig-like mass of hair with lightly incised zigzags. Projecting ornament. Perhaps decoration from a portable brazier or perhaps a fireplace decoration.
14.9.72 Fragment with no finished edges. Exterior: animal procession consisting grazing goats (only head, part of one antler and one foreleg of one and one hind leg of second ramaining)to right; dashes, quatrefoil, and hooked swastikas as filling ornament; below, black band and part of lower frieze - antlers of goat to left; dashes as filling ornament; at right, possibly more antlers.
14.9.73 Pale slip; interior: black, with added red band lined in white; exterior: animal frieze decoration consisting of two goats grazing to left (one hind leg with added red of one and head with antlers, neck with added red, and forelegs of second remaining); crosses, stars, and pinwheel rosette as filling ornament; below, black band above band in added red.
14.9.84 Interior: reserved band below junction of bowl and lip; below, glazed black; exterior: lip glazed with thin reserved line at join with bowl; below, black figure decoration consisting of horseback riders (only head including mane and reins, neck and breast with added red, shoulder and upper forelegs of one horse and tail of second remaining), to right; at far right, possibly incised pinwheel rosette as filling ornament;
2004.10.2 Part of a female figure, half draped, seated profile to the right, reaching to the left with a wreath; vegetal ornament.
2005.3.17 Black on dark brown clay, possibility of band and fill ornament, interior is black
2005.3.25A-C A: foot and base reserved, stem and exterior of kylix black, with reserved band. A second band has floral ornament with a chain-like band below. Interior is black except for a reserved circle in the middle, two small black circular bands mark the centre. B: Floral ornament on this fragment joins up with fragment A, pattern as before, interior and rim/lip black. C: interior, rim, lip and majority of exterior black, patterned floral band as before
2005.3.28A-B A: Whitish slip with bands of decoration, zigzags in added red and straight lines in brown. Interior has a wide band of red at rim, rest is white slip, possibilty of an interior ornament, circular shape in red visible at edge of fragment. B: exterior and interior same as A.
26.2.18 In the top zone, oblique palmette, wild goat to right with head turned back (only tip of beard preserved), added red on black and haunch, reserved line on belly, in field dot rosette, crossed dumb-bell ornament, dotted double spiral; black zone with bands white-red-white superimposed; rays (tip of one preserved). Inside black with a reserved band a little below rim and two groups of bands, white-red-white, roughly on a level with the top and bottom of the broad black band outside.
26.2.19 pale slip; interior: reserved at top of rim; black below, with band in added red lined in white; exterior: frieze of vertical black bars with added red at rim; below, black band above black-figure animal frieze: at left, part of lion or sphinx (rump and tail remaining) to left; on the right, part of large palmette with added red; dashes, star, and dots as filling ornament.
26.2.20 white slip; interior: black with added red band lined in white; exterior: black-figure decoration consisting of lion with added red on neck and belly (head, legs, and part of tail missing) to left; pinwheel rosette, dots, and dashes as filling ornament.
26.2.21 white slip; interior: black; exterior: at left, a part of springing goat (only underbelly remaining) to left; decorative motif consisting of half pin-wheel rosette and part of one spoked rosette and a cross as filling ornament; below, frieze of dots between two wide black bands with added red band lined in white.
26.2.22 white slip; interior black with added red band lined in white; exterior: black-figure decoration consisting of feline (hind claw, belly, and right forleg joint remaining) to right; half pinwheel rosette and one splinter rosette as filling ornament; below, maeander frieze between wide black bands; at bottom of sherd, tips of possible tongues or dot frieze. Rough drill hole.
26.2.29 white slip; interior: unclear decorative motif, possibly part of black lotus flower petal; to the centre, dotted triangular pattern with dot and cross as filling ornament; exterior: two bands fired orange-brown;
26.2.41 pale slip; exterior: black band on ridge at neck join; below, animal frieze consisting of deer (head, forlegs, and rump missing) to left; four petalled rosette and dots as filling ornament; at right, decorative motif consisting of two vertical wavy lines (or tail of bull?); below, two lines.
26.2.42 exterior: animal motif consisting of springing goat (forelegs, back, belly, and neck remaining) to left; cable pattern as filling ornament; below, wide black band above tips of rays.
26.2.43 yellowish slip; exterior: part of two animal friezes consisting of grazing goats, separated by band with aded red line; of upper frieze head, ear, antler and one foreleg of one goat and one hind leg of second remain, to right; part of dot rosette and lozenges as filling ornament; lower frieze preserves shoulder, back, and antler of one goat to left, with triangles and dot rosettes as filling ornament.
26.2.44 pale slip; exterior:frieze of tongues, some with added red; below, narrow band above frieze with floral motif consisting of part of large palmette and tendril; part of spoked rosette, dots, and dashes as filling ornament.
26.2.45 pale slip; exterior: from top, frieze of short tongues; below, part of large palmette and tendril decoration with part of spoked rosette and small crosses as filling ornament; below, three bands (one black, one in added white and one in added red)
26.2.46 pale slip; exterior: from top, part of frieze of tongues; below from left, black-figure decoration consisting of possibly part of a wing with added red; to right, part of large palmette with pinwheel and dot rosettes and dashes as filling ornament; below, black band with superimposed band in added white;
26.2.48 pale slip; exterior, from top: frieze with black-figure decoration consisting of breast and right foreleg of crounching feline to right; on right, possible blob rosette as filling ornament; below, wide black band with traces of bands in added white and red; below, animal procession to left in silhouette style (rump, tail, and part of hind legs of possible goat remaining); part two rosettes and dashes as filling ornament.
26.2.49 white slip; black-figure decoration consisting of confronted winged creatures (only breast with added red and leg of bird or siren to right, and breast with added red of bird or siren to left remaining); incised splinter rosettes and dots as filling ornament;
26.2.50 white slip; exterior: below shoulder and neck join, frieze of tongues with added red; black zone at right below handle; below, wide black band with band in added white; frieze below in black-figure consisting of feline to left (part of back, rump, left hind leg and right hind thigh and tail remaining); dots and incised splinter rosettes as filling ornament; below, part of wide black band with bands in added white and red;
26.2.51 pale slip; exterior, from top: traces of undetermined decoration; band with added red and white lines; black-figure frieze of sphinxes (one with face and forelegs missing, and face, chest and forelegs of second remaining) to left; splinter rosettes and dots as filling ornament; below, second band, then frieze with animal procession in silhouette style consisting of goat grazing to left (horn, shoulders and back remaining); short vertical bars, dot, and maeander cross as filling ornament;
26.2.52 white slip; from top, frieze of tongues; narrow band (fired brown); black-figure decoration consisting of goat to left (rump with added red, one hind leg with added red, and part of tail remaining); large incised shaded rosettes as filling ornament.
26.2.54 cream slip; interior unslipped; exterior: black-figure decoration consisting of sphinx (back and haunches with added red remaining) to right; incised rosette with red centre as filling ornament; below, two black bands above parts of five vertical tongues.
26.2.56 white slip; interior: black at top with traces of two narrow bands in added white; on top of rim, maeander frieze; on edge of rim, short vertical bars; exterior: neck glazed; below ridge at shoulder and neck join frieze of short vertical tongues above black-figure frieze consisting of winged creature (only tip of wing remaining) to left; part of incised splinter rosette as filling ornament;
26.2.73 white slip; interior glazed streaky black with wide band in added red lined in white below rim; below, band in white above one in red; top of rim glazed; exterior: frieze of vertical black strokes at rim, some in added red; below, two narrow black bands; below, from left, part of possibly dot rosette; vertical band of dots between narrow vertical bands; painted decoration consisting of part of pendent lotus bud and part of lotus flower petal; dot rosette as filling ornament;
26.2.85 exterior: black-figure decoration consisting of animal (one hind leg of goat or deer remaining) to right; incised blob and splinter rosettes as filling ornament; below, band in added red and black band;
26.2.86 interior: glazed streaky black; exterior: frieze of wavy vertical strokes between pairs of black bands at rim;below, black-figure decoration consisting of animal frieze (back and part of rump of possibly feline remaining) to right; dots as filling ornament;
26.2.89 on top, black figure decoration consisting of dolphin (back, dorsal fin, and part of tail missing) to left; incised splinter rosette as filling ornament; black around edges with band of added red; black with traces of red on underside;
26.2.91 pale red slip; interior glazed black; exterior: black-figure decoration consisting of winged creature, possibly a bird or siren with outspread wings (breast with added red and right wing remaining) to right; incised dotted rosette with red as filling ornament.
26.2.92 pale red slip; interior glazed black; exterior: black-figure decoration consisting of animal frieze to left (hindlegs and part of belly of one deer or horse and legs and feet of winged creature); below, wide painted black band with added red band lined in white; cruciform rosette as filling ornament.
26.2.93 exterior: black-figure decoration consisting of animal motif (possibly lion's paw) to right; incised blob rosette with added red as filling ornament.
26.8.1 Interior black and exterior decorated with black ornament. Black band on handle extending down each side, with horizontal bars between. On the body are panels or vertical strips of check pattern, herring-bone, cross-hatched lozenges and (bordered above by a row of dots), chevrons flanked by horizontal zigzags and at each end a vertical zigzag and this pattern is repeated on the other side. The lower part of body is black to base, which is reserved and flat.
29.11.3 The vessel is grey (burnt), apart from the rim, the back of the handle, the lower body and upper foot surface, which are black. There is added white on the lower neck, shoulder and upper body surface. There is also a row of black dots and pointed tongues on the shoulder, as well as the motif two rows of black dots between dividing lines (three), interrupted at the back side of the vessel. The scene depicted is that of a charioteer (woman) ridding a chariot of four horses (quadriga). There is a woman at the horses' tails, another standing on the far side of the horses and another seated at the right of the scene. Added red has been used for the faces of the women and for the ornament of the horses' harness. Below the scene, there is a broad, black band between carelessly executed lines and the rest of the vessel is black, apart from the side surface of the foot and the resting surface, which are reserved.
45.10.10 The interior of the vessel is black apart from the lowest part of o, whose lower part bears a reserved but glazed line. Exterior: a) On the right side, there is the upper part of a seated woman (part below her waist is missing). She is draped and wears a stephane (fillet) on her head. On the left side there is a floral motif whose stem is a wavy line that expands to the left. b) There is the back side of another seated draped female figure. c) The front side of the previous female figure. She is holding an alabastron with both her hands. d) On the lower left part there is the largest part of a voluted palmette with petal shaped divisions, connected with a tendril. The area next to the spring of the one part of the handle is reserved. e) On the bottom right there is the rest of the previous palmette, also connected with a tendril. f) On the bottom right there is the upper part of a palmette and on the upper left there is part of a tendril's volute. The area on the left of teh one spring of the handle is reserved, but glazed (plaster on top). g) Uneven black surface. h) A small part of the volute of the tendril of f and the stalk of a flower. i) Part of an inverted palmette, connceted with (part of ) a tendril, with (occasional) leaves on its sides. j) Small line, part of a tendril. k) Part of a tendril's volute. l) A figure's projected forearm and hand (figure's depicted on n?). m) On the right side, there is the stalk and part of the stem of a flower and a line that seems to be part of a tendril. There is also the spring of a handle. n) Part (head missing, neck and shoulder are scraped off, area below the knees missing) of a draped standing figure that has the left hand around the waist. o) The lowest part of a figure's drapery. p) Base. Inside tondo: seated woman with septre and standing woman holding out box. Exterior: part of floral ornament under handle. Outer and inner side of footring black, resting surface and underside reserved except for central black dot surrounded by three concentric bands. Moulded circle c.1.0 wide houses thickest, central black band.
49.8.2 It has a central knob handle with moulded ridges that bears a red spoked wheel and a red band with a reserved rim. Additionally, it has a black and red down moulded handle with two bads at the bottom. Both sides depict a female head with ornate head dress, made of whitish thin bands and dots, shorter and thinner yellow ones, as well as of ovaloid or curving mottifs. A lock falls over, accross the neck. A spiral pattern is used to fill the surface between the end of the kalyptra (hair dress) and the beginning of another motif; a palmette, used as decoration on either side, while a floral pattern fills the space between the chin and the other side of the palmette. One of the heads wears a neclace made of yellow beads, while her earing is painted over the hair with big round spots. Between the two heads there are palmettes (fan-shaped ornament composed of narrow divisions) with added yellow for few details. Around the bottom of the rim there is a wave pattern to the left. The underside is completely reserved.
50.10.1 The interior, from the lip down, is reserved. There is a thick band on the lip and vertical bars on the exterior of the rim, then five bands, evenly spaced, between the rim and where the handles start. Neck (A,B): Panel between two triglyphs, each consisting of three vertical lines, a band of diagonal lines, and another three vertical lines. Panel filled with a long-legged bird facing left (body outlined and filled with vertical lines), filling splotches, and a horizontal triangle, cross-hatched, to the right. Shoulder (A,B): Seven vertical lines, panel, seven vertical lines. The panels are filled with (A) dog (silhouette) runing to right, with filling ornament, (B) same, but the dog chasing a hare. Horizontal bands cover the exterior of both handles, and the handle zones are outlined with a very thick band. Body: three horizontal bands; close zigzag; seven more bands; a large black band covering the lower part of the body and the foot. Resting surface and underside reserved.
50.12.6 Fragment of comparatively fine open vase. Very pale clay. Interior black band about 1 cm wide just inside rim. Exterior lip grooved and painted black. Small bit of painted ornament.
73.9.5 Rim is flat and black on top, as well as underneath and inside. Below, on ruddled surface, metopic ornament. Below, on reserved surface, meander round dotted square.
REDMG:1947.13.1 Black mouth inside and out, otherwise reserved inside. Below the rim, on the lip, is a white laurel wreath, to right. On neck, between black handles, a 9-leaf palmette, with a black dot for heart and black dot on either side of central petal; black ridge between two black lines; frieze of vertical bars beneath each handle; beneath each handle a large palmette above a pair of volutes, from which emerge vegetal ornament. A: Attenuated ovolo frieze between two black lines; white ribbing (painted); two reserved bands; floral frieze with white head, to left, at centre, emerging from a calyx from which emerge also tendrils, berries, volutes, and blossoms; reserved frieze; scene. B: Continuous maeander to right, between two pairs of lines; black ribbing (painted) between two black lines; flanked by vegetal ornament, from which emerges quarter palmettes and volutes, a female head, profile to left, wearing white stephane, and white sakkos, from which emerges curly black hair, at front and black; white drop earring on an inverted triangle. Below the body zone, around the entire vase, is a decorative band consisting of dotted cross squares (1) alternating with stopt maeanders to left (3) between two reserved bands; black below. Scene, A: A woman, standing in 3/4-view to the right, with head profile to right, hair emerging from the back, a sleeveless, belted chiton, a himation draped over her left arm, a pair of white slippers, holds a palmette fan, with white detail, in her upraised left hand, and a branch (similar to a thyrsos) in her left hand, at a diagonal. She also wears a white stephane and a sakkos with black and white detail, from the back of which emerges a tuft of hair, a white beaded necklace between two thin chains (rendered by black lines), and white snake bracelets on each arm. She faces a naiskos enclosure, decorated in gilded white, with thin Corinthian columns and a black pediment, on a podium decorated with a simple continuous maeander to right, between a two pairs of white lines. Enclosed within the naiskos is a warrior, rendered in white with yellow details, seated in 3/4-view to the left, on a himation, with his legs crossed, and his left elbow resting on the back of his seat. He holds a crested helmet in 3/4-view to the right, at which he stares, and a diagonal spear in his left hand. On the ground below him is a small shield. To the right is a nude youth, standing in a reclining pose, 3/4-view to the left, wearing a white fillet in his hair, and white slippers. He holds a himation, bundled up around his left arm, and an opened box as well as a dotted, fringed sash, in his right hand. A thin rectangular element, perhaps a dagger, emerges from the opened box. A (heart shaped) ivy leaf hangs in the field above him. White dotted lines indicate the groundline between all figures. Details on the shoulder rays and, ornaments in the field, and all figural scenes are rendered in added white, sometimes 'gilded' with yellow wash.
REDMG:1950.25.1 Black interior to bottom of rim. Laurel wreath, to right, on neck, above a row of widely spaced dots. Body decorated with egg-and-dot frieze, between reserved bands, which stops short of the handle on either side; figural zone except beneath handle (palmette with floral blossom at centre, three vertical lines at heart, vegetal ornament and flowing tendrils on either side); inverted waves, to right. Exterior surface of foot is ruddled on the upper part. Reserved resting surface and underside except for black circle at centre, surrounded by broad ruddled band, and black on inner foot ring. The figural scene shows a female figure, dressed in a belted, sleeveless chiton, reclining on her front, profile to right, reaching towards a phiale held by Eros, who advances profile to left, crouched and holding a wreath in his lowered right hand and a phiale in his upraised left hand. Both wear their hair identically: spike stephanai, sakkoi, and pony tails. Behind Eros a bird, profile to the right, on a perirrhanterion (pedestal basin). Added white, ‘gilded’ with yellow, on floral and vegetal ornament, headdresses, wings, and basin.
REDMG:1951.139.1 Black, except for double palmette on top of knob, reserved line on groove below stem. On top of lid, two female heads, each wearing a sakkos, one with a spiked stephane, profile to left, between palmettes. More tendrils and vegetal ornament, emerge from the palmettes. Wave to right, around lip. Added colour only for stephane.
REDMG:1951.140.1 Upper surface of rim reserved, black ridge, and outer edge of lip decorated with a wave pattern to right; black below lip, on neck and on handles except forward handle attachments (on horizontal handles) decorated with rays; reserved patches beneath horizontal handles. Lower part of neck decorated at front with a short laurel wreath, to left, between two narrow reserved bands. Beneath the figural scene is a groundline comprised of a frieze of alternating maeanders (three) and saltire squares (one). Narrow reserved line at join with base, bottom edge of base, and underside. The figural scene is framed between a tendril, above the left handle, and a larger vegetal ornament, from which emerges a lotus bud. A Youth stands in 3/4-view to the right. He is nude, except for drapery slung over his bent right arm and held in his lowered left hand, and a white taenia on his head. He also holds a staff in his slightly upraised right hand. At centre is a bird (crane), seated in a perirhanterion (basin), supported by a fluted, tapered column, with a dotted capital, on a two-stepped base. The steps are decorated with small black spots and thin diagonal lines that suggest a marbled appearance. On the other side of the perirhanterion stands a woman, in 3/4-view to the left, with her weight on her right leg and her left leg relaxed. She wears a belted, sleeveless chiton, double bracelets on each wrist, a beaded necklace, and a spiked stephane, as well as a short pony tail. She extends her right hand to the bird and holds a box, decorated on the sides with black spots and lines, and three white spots on top, in her slightly upraised right hand. Above the bird is a rectangular frame (sometimes called a window but perhaps a votive plaque); above the box is a cogwheel. Most of the reserved areas are darkened with red wash, and the jewelry and other details in added white.
REDMG:1951.159.1 On neck, between black handles, an enclosed palmette (11 petals on A and 9 petals on B; with two concentric arcs for heart on A, black dot for heart on B), black dot on either side of central petal, and black dot in the upper corners; black ridge below black line; frieze of vertical bars below each handle attachment; beneath each handle two superimposed palmettes, with a pair of volutes between, from which emerge tendrils, sprouting quarter palmettes. A: egg-and-dot frieze, between two black lines; white ribbing (painted); two reserved bands; floral frieze on shoulder (four volutes from which emerge flowers, tendrils and secondary volutes) emerging from the lower right; two reserved bands; scene. B: Continuous maeander to right, between two black lines; black ribbing (painted) between two pairs of black lines; a female head, profile to left, wearing a sakkos, from which emerges curly black hair, at front and back. Below the body zone, around the entire vase, is a decorative band consisting of dotted broken stopt maeanders to left (pattern doesn’t match up on side B, to the left) between two reserved bands; black below. Scene, A: A naiskos comprised of two Corinthian columns supporting a tapered epistyle and black pediment, on top of a podium (white maeander on a brown background, between alternating black and white horizontal bands). Two white female figures stand within the naiskos. The figure at left, standing in 3/4-view to the right, wears a himation over her left arm and hips, over a peplos (decorated with two vertical purple bands on the chest). Her hair is bound in a sakkos from which emerges hair at front and back; her jewelry includes a beaded necklace and two bracelets on each wrist. She holds a fan in her raised left hand as well as a wreath in her lowered right hand. She faces another woman (probably the deceased) who is seated in 3/4-view to the left on a stool (diphros) and rests her feet on a footrest (hypopodion). She wears a short sleeved chiton and a purple himation that she holds above her right shoulder in an unveiling gesture (anakalypteria). Her hair too is bound in a sakkos, from which emerges hair at the back; she wears two necklaces, one beaded, and two bracelets on each arm. A small ornament (or pures) hovers in the field between the two women. On either side of the naiskos is a kalathos (basket), below a rosette (red with added yellow and white), above a pair of white balls interspersed with clusters of three white dots, and above a double line of white dots. Each basket (both are identical) is decorated with a cross-square with intervening triangles (top) and alternating bands of zigzags, and white and black lines, as well as a band of vertical bars.
REDMG:1953.25.32 Interior and handles black, as are the lower part of the body, stem, and upper surface of foot. Reserved band around rim, interrupted on either side by handles. Reserved vertical band in each handle zone; on each side a female head, profile to the left, between two white vertical bands, each crowned by a circle near the top of the band; red diagonal surface of foot; reserved underside including resting surface. Each female wears a stephane and a sakkos from which emerges a bundle of hair, also tied with a white ribbon; earring comprised of triangular element (missing from side B) beneath hoop; beaded necklace The figure on side B has a fleur-de-lys in the lower left field. The surface is ruddled on both heads and the exterior of the foot; added yellow, in places ‘gilded’ with yellow, for details of hair ornament, jewelry, and fleur-de-lys.
REDMG:1961.150.4 Glazed all over (so that fabric colour is indeterminate) and burnished to red (2.5YR 4/6) and black (GLEY 1 2.5/N). Linear ornament (incisions) on handle
TEMP.2007.3.80 obverse: Head of Constantine reverse: A building or an ornament
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