Black painted buff ware pottery vessel (small oinochoe). [ASh [OPS move] 27/04/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Black painted buff ware pottery vessel (small oinochoe). [ASh [OPS move] 27/04/2016]
Long description: Black painted buff ware pottery vessel (small oinochoe). Globular body, flat base, rising handle and a pinched mouth creating a spout on the rim. The painted exterior is chipping away. [ASh [OPS move] 27/04/2016]
Geographical reference: Greece
Europe > Southern Europe > Greece; Unknown
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: 600-401 BC Archaeological period: Iron Age Archaic Greek
Date collected: By 1874
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Terracotta Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Thrown, Process Painted
Dimensions: Height: max 90 mm, Width: max 70 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.37.79 PR Cat other PR nos: 1912
Research and responses: This object was examined by Drs Yannis Galanakis and Stella Skaltsa as part of the Fell funded project Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections. They described this vessel as a small oinochoe, a type of vessel related to drinking. They dated it to the sixth/fifth century BC. [AS 06/01/2011]
Associated publications: Referred to on page 327 of 'The Aegean and Cyprus', by Yannis Galanakis and Dan Hicks, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 216-39. Galanakis and Hicks writes: ‘There are c. 16 ceramic vessels from the Archaic Greek period (c. 700–500 BCE): ... 3 ceramic oinochoai (wine jugs) (1884.37.45, 1884.37.51, 1884.37.79) ...’ [MJD (Verve) 11/1/2016]

Search terms: Vessel, Pottery, Jug

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