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Situla in Gnathian Style
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Buff fabric with black slip with red mottled patches from misfiring. Decoration in added yellow, red, and white. White tongue pattern below rim. Two multi-colored bands below this. Central frieze with stylized grape clusters and vine tendrils in white on either side of a red stripe. Below this main frieze is a curvy wave pattern. Strap handle with added coils. Plastic female head below rim at end of handle. Strainer-like holes below rim at other side, with missing spout, perhaps also plastic. Restored from several fragments. Some plaster restorations.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Gnathian Situla: Purchased from George Allen Hesperia Art Philadelphia PA March 1969.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Situla in Gnathian Style
Description:
Buff fabric with black slip with red mottled patches from misfiring.
Decoration in added yellow, red, and white.
White tongue pattern below rim.
Two multi-colored bands below this.
Central frieze with stylized grape clusters and vine tendrils in white on either side of a red stripe.
Below this main frieze is a curvy wave pattern.
Strap handle with added coils.
Plastic female head below rim at end of handle.
Strainer-like holes below rim at other side, with missing spout, perhaps also plastic.
Restored from several fragments.
Some plaster restorations.
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