Acquisition number: 1966.28
Intact. Pink cream-buff clay. Flat base. The handle rises slightly above the level of the lip.
Title: Sicilian Plain Olpe - 1966.28
Acquisition number: 1966.28
Culture or period: Sicilian Black, Banded and Plain.
Date: c. 6th - 4th century BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels - Jug/wine jug
Dimensions: 82mm (w) × 154mm (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) 71.
1966.28
Sicilian Plain Olpe
From the Woite Collection; probably from the area of Gela, Sicily. Ht (lip) 15.4cm; diam. 8.2cm.
Intact. Pink cream-buff clay. Flat base. The handle rises slightly above the level of the lip.
This is a common shape amongst Sicilian household wares of the sixth to fourth centuries. Compare an example with banded decoration but of very similar shape dated to the mid-sixth century, Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1961, 213 fig. 17c; also Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1969 suppl., 13 fig. 6b, a sixth century example from Piazza Armerina which differs a little in form. Of the later fourth century: see Monumenti Antichi 46, 1963, 198ff., pl. III, 7, from Agrigento.
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) 71.