Oinochoe Fragment
73-25-45
From: Greece | Argolid | Argive Heraeum (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 73-25-45 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Corinthian |
| Provenience | Greece | Argolid | Argive Heraeum (uncertain) |
| Date Made | 550-400 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Cylindrical oinochoe fragment. Fragment of nearly straight wall with double curve to shoulder. Even break above: presumably pot was made in sections. Hard buff clay. Interior unglazed. Surface covered with cream colored slip. Decoration in glaze partly fired yellow. Below, 3 wheel-painted lines. Middle, zone with curvilinear design enclosing two rows of pear-shaped outlines; dots in field. Above, a wheel-painted line, and a broad band of glaze on which a red wheel-painted line is superimposed. "Heraeum" in pencil on interior. |
| Height | 6.1 cm |
| Width | 4.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Robert H. Bates, 1973 |
| Other Number | L-224-56 - Old Loan Number |
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