Inventory Number: | P 23196 | |
Section Number: | ΜΣ 740 | |
Title: | Black Figure Olpe | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Description: | Part of foot missing and restored in plaster; dented on Athena's shield and below lower handle attachment. Thick mouth with curved outline; band handle rooted on lip above with two knobs on each side of the attachment. Narrow ovoid body; flaring disk foot with a concave underside having a sunken center. In a panel, Dionysos and Athena confronting. Dionysos wears wreath and himation; he holds vine branches and rhyton. Athena wears helmet, himation and a chiton and holds spear and shield; leg as shield device. The garments of both are decorated with large dots and groups of small ones. The picture is framed by lines and above it there is a band of two rows of dots divided horizontally. Above the panel there is a red line; another red line runs all around the vase just below the panel. White for a broad band in Dionysos himation, for Athena's face and the device of her shield and for a row of dots at the base of her crest. Red for Dionysos's beard, the berries of his wreath, a band on Athena's helmet, the edge of her shield, the ornament of the garments. Some incision. Pinkish-buff clay; unevenly fired glaze (brown, gray, black), a good deal of which now gone. | |
Context: | Well A. POU | |
Notebook Page: | 1084 | |
Negatives: | Leica | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.231; Diam. 0.133 | |
Date: | 5 May 1953 | |
Section: | ΜΣ | |
Elevation: | -11.80 to -12.25m. | |
Masl: | -12.25--11.6m. | |
Deposit: | H 12:15.1 | |
Period: | Greek | |
Bibliography: | Agora XXIII, no. 694, pl. 67. | |
Paralip., p. 194 bis. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora XXIII Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 207, p. 191 Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 365, p. 349 Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 466 Image: 2010.18.0529 (Leica P 23196) Deposit: H 12:15 Deposit: H 12:15.1 Card: P 23196 Card: P 23196 |