Italic oinochoe decorated with six warriors
Medium:Wheel-thrown earthenware, slip-painted
Geography: Probably made Apulia, Italy; findspot unknown
Date: about 580-570 BC
Period: Italic Archaic period
Object number: 919.5.61
Credit Line: Sigmund Samuel Collection
Gallery Location:Gallery of Greece
DescriptionLarge oinochoe (jug) decorated in polychromatic slip paint with a frieze of six warriors wearing helmets with round shields, some carrying weapons. 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.
