Acquisition number: 1966.39
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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.
Title: Sicilian Banded Feeder - 1966.39
Acquisition number: 1966.39
Acquisition source or name: Woite Collection.
Acquisition year: 1966
Owner type: ANU Classics Museum
Culture or period: Sicilian Black, Banded and Plain.
Date: 4th century BC.
Date century or Timeline (notional): 399 to 300
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels
Technique or style: Vessels - baby-feeder.
Dimensions: 65mm (w) × 74mm (h)
Origin region or location: Italy
Origin city: Possibly Gela.
Keywords: Sicilian, Banded, Gela, Woite Collection, baby-feeder
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 72.
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 6th, 5th, and 4th 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.
From the Woite Collection.
Intact but the surface is worn.