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Vase Catalog Number: Mississippi 1977.3.109
Images | Browse Images| Collection: | University Museums, University of Mississippi | ||
| Summary: | A boy and a dog. | ||
| Ware: | Attic Black Figure, Six's Technique | Shape: | Miniature chous |
| Painter: | Potter: | ||
| Context: | From Greece | Region: | Greece |
| Date: | ca 450 B.C. - ca. 400 B.C. | Period: | Classical |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.066 m.; D 0.045 m. | ||
| Primary Citation: | |||
Decoration:
The vase is painted black, with the decoration in opaque white paint and the hair and inner details of the drawing in gilt. A child is shown crawling on his hands and knees to a little dog, on the right.
This type of vase was a present to a child for the Festival of the Anthesteria; they were also buried with children who had not lived long enough to attend the festival, in the same way that unmarried girls were buried with bridal vases.
Collection History:
Gift of Helen Tudor Robinson, 1959. Formerly in the D.M. Robinson collection, Harvard inv. no. 225.
Condition:
The paint is worn.
Sources Used:
(AL)
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4 Images
| Archive Number | Caption |
|---|---|
| 1991.01.0954 | Overview: handle left |
| 1991.01.0955 | Overview: handle rear |
| 1991.01.0956 | Main panel: boy |
| 1991.01.0957 | Main panel: dog |