| Inventory Number: | P 15844 | |
| Section Number: | ΟΑ 1065 | |
| Title: | Red Figure Oinochoe Fragment | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Description: | The lower body, mended from many pieces; nothing of the foot preserved. On the interior is a dull black glaze wash (the only example of the series which shows any signs of waterproofing inside). For the shape, cf. P 15840 and P 15841. Ornament: below the scene a band of maeanders intercepted at intervals of 2, 3 or 4 by checkerboard squares; the band runs right around the vase. At the back, beneath the handle, a broad palmette and volute ornament, with an acanthus leaf to either side of a central palmette which rests on the lower border. Figured scene: A quadriga galloping left; legs or hooves of four horses preserved, the lower halves of both chariot wheels with traces of the chariot, and also an end of flying drapery (bordered Doric chiton) belonging to its occupant. Below the horses' hooves, three dolphins leaping, two left, one right, among wave crests, these indicated by groups of concentric curves painted over the glaze in a color now vanished (white?). Just above the lower border is a row of small dots in added clay. No subsidiary figures. Technique: relief contours throughout except for the ornament. Inner drawing in fine firm black line, much of it relief line. Note that the white wave crests are in some cases drawn over the dolphins' bodies, so that the latter were seen in part through the waves. Excellent glaze, careful and spirited work. ADDENDA: one mended fragment renumbered as frag. b (not joining). | |
| Conservation Status: | Finished | |
| Context: | Oinochoe deposit. | |
| Notebook Page: | 2516 | |
| Negatives: | Leica, XXIV-52, XXIV-53, 81-539 | |
| Dimensions: | P.H. ca. 0.09; Diam. (base of figured scene) 0.102 | |
| Date: | 12-15 April 1939 | |
| Section: | ΟΑ | |
| Deposit: | U 26:1 | |
| Period: | Greek | |
| Bibliography: | Lezzi-Hafter (1976), p. 118, no. O 30, pl. 171:c, d. | |
| Hesperia 31 (1962), no. 9, pl. 30:9. | ||
| Agora XXX, no. 817, pl. 84. | ||
| Is Similar To: | Agora:Object:P 15840 | |
| Agora:Object:P 15841 | ||
| References: | Publication: Agora XXX Publication: Hesperia 31 (1962) Publication Page: Agora 30, s. 274, p. 255 Publication Page: Agora 30, s. 395, p. 376 Publication Page: Agora 30, s. 522 Images (5) Object: Agora XXX, no. 817 Deposit: U 26:1 Card: P 15844 Card: P 15844 |
|
.png.icon.jpg){kind=icon}
.png.icon.jpg){kind=icon}
