Athens / Geometric Pitcher or tankard / Ceramic / Glaze / Slip

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.2568
Object Name: Geometric Pitcher or tankard
Lot: Marburg Collection
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Pottery
Materials: Ceramic; Glaze; Slip
Length: ;
Width: 16.0;
Height: 19.6;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;446 g
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Flat ribbon handle with cross on exterior attached to body by a strut. Mended: small body pieces modern. Pinkish buff clay with yellower slip. Brown glaze fired red on lower body. Three lines on inside of mouth. Groups of bars on lip top. Three bars on handle above mouth. Neck: stripes and cross hatched leaves separated by groups of lines. Body: stripes and a row of dotted circles connected by tangents.; Pitcher. Said to be from Athens. Clay.
Verbatim Date: c. 750 - 700 BC
Verbatim Provenance: Greece
Verbatim Site: Athens
Production Site: site
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Case 07 - Greek World
Exhibition Curator: Talalay, Lauren; Herbert, Sharon C.
Exhibition Year: 2009
Publication Title: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Publication Author: Van Ingen, Wilhelmina
Publication Year: 1933
Type Category: Ceramic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.2568
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2568/0000_00_2568p05.tif

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Full citation: "Athens; Geometric Pitcher or tankard; Ceramic; Glaze; Slip." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2568/0000_00_2568p05.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.