Olpe
MS2523
From: Mediterranean Islands
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS2523 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Corinthian |
| Provenience | Mediterranean Islands |
| Manufacture Location | Corinth |
| Creator | Braunschweig Painter |
| Period | Corinthian Transitional Period | Early Corinthian |
| Date Made | 620-590 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Iconography | Sphinx | Panther | Goose | Bull | Lion | Boar | Rosettes |
| Description | Olpe. Handle and much of upper neck and lip missing and restored in plaster. Buff painted black. Reserved: underside of foot except for 2 concentric bands and a line in glaze; zone around lower wall; two broad zones around mid- and upper wall. Ray pattern in lower zone. In middle zone confronted sphinxes with a goose between. Behind right hand sphinx is, left to right, a panther, a goose, a bull, a lion. In upper zone, left to right from handle is a feline, a boar, a lion, and a goose. In field in both zones both dotted and incised rosettes. |
| Height | 31 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 18 cm |
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