Acquisition number: 1966.32
Yellow-buff clay. Globular body with short, sharply offset lip. The vase originally had a high handle, now missing. The upper part was dipped in dull black paint, now worn.
Title: Sicilian Black-Glaze Ladler - 1966.32
Acquisition number: 1966.32
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 - 5th century BC.
Date century or Timeline (notional): 599 to 400
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels
Technique or style: Black-Glaze. Vessels - ladler.
Dimensions: 65mm (w) × 55mm (h)
Origin region or location: Italy
Origin city: Possibly Gela.
Display case or on loan: 10
Keywords: Sicilian, Black Glaze, Gela, Woite Collection
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 71.
1966.32
Sicilian Black-Glaze Ladler
From the Woite Collection; probably from the area of Gela, Sicily. Ht (lip) 5.5cm; diam. 6.5cm.
Yellow-buff clay. Globular body with short, sharply offset lip. The vase originally had a high handle, now missing. The upper part was dipped in dull black paint, now worn.
This shape too was a common household item in sixth and fifth century Sicily; it is also frequent in Etruscan black glaze and plain wares of the fifth and fourth centuries. See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1971, 572 fig. 49, 61389 and Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1969 suppl., 57 fig. 77d (fifth century).
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.
1966.32
Sicilian black-glaze ladle
With its high handle missing
c. 6th or 5th century BC
From the Woite Collection.
The vase originally had a high handle, now missing.