University of Chicago 1967.115.363
Attic Black-Figure Nikosthenic Amphora
Handle-Fragment
ca. 535-520 B.C.
Lent by The David and Alfred Smart Gallery, The University of
Chicago; gift of E. P. Warren (1967.115.363, formerly UC 268). From Palestrina.
The Fragment: w. 4.5 cm; l. 8.0 cm.
Four holes across the top, two across bottom (ancient repairs). Left side of
handle glazed, right side glazed only at bottom. Back reserved; slight
discoloration of clay.
Decoration: Satyr's head and upper
torso; on rim, lotusbud florals.
Added red:
hair and beard and red around nipples. Better designed than most satyrs on
Nikosthenic amphorae, having bushy hair on forehead and on nape of neck,
well-drawn eye and front of face outlined in incision. Satyrs with these
strange, slender, digital noses are found on other Nikosthenic amphorae, on the
handles:
Brussels R 389 (
ABV, 219, no. 19,
CVA, Belgium I, Brussels Musées du Cinquantenaire I, pl. 12.4b and
4d).
Bibliography
ABV, 222, no. 55;
Johnson 1943, 47, 393, fig. 8.
W.G.M.
