- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Small pottery buff ware ? jug (oinochoe) with side handle, and traces of black and brown pigment on the outside. [JP 9/7/2004]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector John Wickham Flower
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Date made: 500-301 BC Archaeological period: Ancient Greek Archaeological period: Iron Age
- Date collected
- By 1873
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1892, uncertain Found unentered: 2004
- Dimensions
- Height: max 55 mm, Width: max 45 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2004.148.18
- Research and responses
Note that only a tiny fraction of JW Flower items are also marked as being related to the Pitt Rivers founding collection. Whilst it is possible that they did originally form part of the founding collection, were brought from London in 1884 and then placed with the geological (or other) collections at Oxford University Museum of Natural History before eventually being transferred to the Pitt Rivers Museum it seems odd that they were not all recorded as being related to the founding collection. Most are attributed to being donated by Flowers to OUMNH and being transferred from there [AP 23/07/2009]
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 it as a miniature oinochoe vessel, a type of vessel associated with drinking. They dated it to the fifth/fourth century BC. [AS 06/01/2011]
2004.148.18
Small pottery buff ware ? jug (oinochoe) with side handle, and traces of black and brown pigment on the outside. [JP 9/7/2004]
2004.148.18
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