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Terracotta barrel-shaped oinochoe (jug)

ca. 725–700 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 170
This unusual shape is often found with another distinctive container, a bird-shaped askos. Some scholars have proposed a connection with a wine ritual. Such vases, their painted ornaments heavily influenced by Greek geometric pottery, were produced at Vulci. The originally Near Eastern motif of two goats flanking a tree of life also occurs on a celebrated Euboean geometric krater found on Cyprus (74.51.965), which is on view in the early Greek galleries (The Belfer Court).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Terracotta barrel-shaped oinochoe (jug)
  • Period: Geometric
  • Date: ca. 725–700 BCE
  • Culture: Etruscan, Italo-geometric
  • Medium: Terracotta
  • Dimensions: H. 13 3/16 in. (33.5 cm)
  • Classification: Vases
  • Credit Line: Gift of Schimmel Foundation Inc., 1975
  • Object Number: 1975.363
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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