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
Acquisition source or name: Woite Collection.
Acquisition year: 1966
Owner type: ANU Classics Museum
Culture or period: Sicilian Black, Banded and Plain.
Date: c. 6th - 4th century BC.
Date century or Timeline (notional): 599 to 300
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.
1966.28
Sicilian plain olpe
A jug of a shape that was common in Sicilian household wares
c. 6th-4th century BC
From the Woite Collection.
Intact.