Acquisition number: 1966.27
The mouth has been broken and mended. Pinkish buff clay. Relatively large rounded body with narrow neck and flat base; strap handle. Unpainted.
Title: Sicilian Narrow-Necked Jug - 1966.27
Acquisition number: 1966.27
Acquisition source or name: Woite Collection.
Acquisition year: 1966
Owner type: ANU Classics Museum
Culture or period: Sicilian Black, Banded and Plain.
Date: c. Second half 4th century BC.
Date century or Timeline (notional): 399 to 300
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels - Jug/wine jug
Dimensions: 108mm (w) × 143mm (h)
Origin region or location: Italy
Origin city: Possibly Gela.
Display case or on loan: 10
Keywords: Sicilian, Gela, Woite Collection
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 70.
1966.27
Sicilian Narrow-Necked Jug
From the Woite Collection; probably from the area of Gela, Sicily. Ht 14.3cm; diam. 10.8cm.
The mouth has been broken and mended. Pinkish buff clay. Relatively large rounded body with narrow neck and flat base; strap handle. Unpainted.
The purpose of this type of jug is not entirely clear. The shape suggests that it may have been an oil container but an East Greek example of about 500 BC was found at the bottom of a well in the Athenian Agora with its cork still fixed in its mouth: Hesperia 20, 1951, 50 and pl. 25a. It had presumably been suspended in the well so that its contents might cool, and so one might further infer that it contained wine. Our example probably belongs to the fourth century BC, perhaps the later part.
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) 70.
1966.27
Sicilian narrow-necked jug
The purpose of this type of jug is not clear; perhaps it held oil or wine.
c. 2nd half 4th century BC.
From the Woite Collection.
The mouth has been broken and mended.