Italic oinochoe (jug) decorated with ten warriors
Medium:Wheel-thrown earthenware, slip-painted
Geography: Probably made in Apulia, Italy; findspot unknown
Date: about 580-570 BC
Period: Archaic Italic period
Dimensions:32.1 x 21.2 cm
Object number: 920.68.37
Credit Line: Gift of Sigmund Samuel
Gallery Location:Gallery of Greece
DescriptionLarge trefoil-mouthed oinochoe (jug) decorated in slip paint with a frieze of ten warriors carrying small round shields. This appears to be made by a local Italic Peucetian workshop which worked in the region between Bari and Gnathia in Apulia. It imitates the shape of Greek vessels from Corinth or East Greece, but is decorated in a local figurative style.
