Terracotta fragments of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)
On the top of the panel, ivy; below, at the left, head, neck, and upper torso of a bearded man to right, wearing a himation, with a patterned collar; filleted, draped woman to right, wearing a peplos and a himation patterned with x's; in the center, wreathed Theseus, wearing a chitoniskos, with a scabbard, wrestling with the Minotaur, who holds a white rock in his left raised hand; above, the Minotaur's hand, hanging in the field, a patterned fillet; filleted, draped youth to right wearing a himation with a patterned collar and hem, and with rosettes; draped, filleted woman to left, wearing a red and black himation, with her hand to her mouth; head and part of the upper torso of a filleted youth to left, with a baldric; fragment with the foot of the filleted youth from the right side of the panel; black glaze fragment from the neck; thirteen other black glaze fragments
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta fragments of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)
- Period: Archaic
- Date: third quarter of the sixth century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011
- Object Number: 2011.604.3.769a–p
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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