1966.39

Sicilian Banded Feeder

From the Woite Collection; probably from the area of Gela, Sicily. Ht (lip) 7.4cm; diam. 6.5cm.

Intact but the surface is worn. Pale orange-buff clay, fired grey in places. There is brown paint on the spout and rim, in broad bands on the neck and lower wall and foot, and in lines on the body.

This type of feeder is not uncommon in South Italy and Sicily in the fourth century BC. For feeders in general, see the discussion by Snijder, Mnemosyne ser. 3, 1, 1934, 34-60. There are feeders not unlike ours from Palinuro (R. Naumann and B. Neutsch, Palinuro II [Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung Suppl. 4, 1960] pl. 55, 1 and 2), and from Morgantina (C.L. Lyons, Morgantina Studies V. The Archaic Cemeteries [Princeton 1996] 65-66).

For the Attic type, which has a different form, see B. Sparkes and L. Talcott, Black and Plain Pottery of the 6^th, 5^th, and 4^th centuries BC (Princeton NJ 1970) 161-162 and the examples listed there.

See 1966.01-1966.42 in this catalogue for all material from the Woite Collection in the ANU collection.

J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 72.