Oinochoe showing a Siren | Yale University Art Gallery

4th century B.C.

Medium: Terracotta; red-figure. Red wash.
Dimensions: 3 3/8 × 2 11/16 in. (8.5 × 6.8 cm) Height (to top of handle)/Diameter of body
3/16 × 2 15/16 in. (0.4 × 7.5 cm) Height of foot/Diameter including handle
3 1/4 × 1 3/4 in. (8.3 × 4.5 cm) Height to top of lip/Diameter of foot (exterior)
Credit Line: Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard
Accession Number: 1913.140
Culture: Greek, South Italian, Lucanian
Period: Classical
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Ex collection Dr. Paul Arndt.

Bibliography

Richard Hamilton, Choes and Anthesteria: Athenian Iconography and Ritual (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1992),

Arthur Dale Trendall and Alexander Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978),

Professor Paul V. C. Baur, Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases at Yale University, 1st ed. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1922),

Professor Paul V. C. Baur, Preliminary Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases in Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1914), 17, no. 142

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Additional information

Object/Work type

oinochoai

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