Sherd
60-19-95
From: Greece | Argolid | Argive Heraeum
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | 60-19-95 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Attic |
Provenience | Greece | Argolid | Argive Heraeum |
Date Made | 6th century BCE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Technique | Black Figure |
Description | Wall fragment of closed vessel. Left leg of a male, perhaps a satyr. striding or running to left, preserved from just above knee downward, heel missing. An animal's tail, probably a horse tail, is painted across leg just below knee. Red: line on tail. To right of leg is part of a spiral ornament. Toes rest on a wheel-glazed line; a second such line partly preserved below. Interior unglazed. Traces of glue on left edge of sherd. Probably from a neck-amphora. |
Width | 6.5 cm |
Thickness | 0.4 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Estate of Edith Hall Dohan, 1960 |
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