Terracotta barrel-shaped oinochoe (jug)

Unknown

ca. 725–700 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

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).

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 725–700 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Etruscan, Italo-geometric

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Schimmel Foundation Inc., 1975