Greek or etruscan oinochoe from Spina
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Object number
AR2456
| Object: |
Small oinochoe
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| Material: |
Red clay with black slip
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| Date |
About 4th century B.C.
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| Description: |
Pear-shaped jug with ring-shaped base and flat-convex handle. Short neck opening into a trefoil-shaped mouth. The body is fully covered with black slip. Reported to have been found in Spina area. Spina was a Greek-Etruscan city on today's Emilia Romagna in Italy. Possibly import from Apulia, such vases were e.g. very popular in Gnatia. |
| Size: |
Height 105 mm, Diameter 69 mm.
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| Condition: |
Very well preserved, black slip partially worn. Strong patina, especially around the bottom.
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| Reference: |
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Zürich, Öffentliche Sammlungen Pl. 51.20 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Cambridge (MA) Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections Pl. 36.1 (decorated with vine branch) |
| Provenance: |
Acquired 2018 from the German family collection Bergweiler which was formed over several generations. Acquired by Ä. and P. Bergweiler December 22nd, 1965 at Antiquitätenhandlung Hermann Zirkel, Cologne, Germany.
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| Authenticity: |
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