On view
Ancient Mediterranean Art
Stamnoid jar,
ca. 700–680 BCE
Etruscan
Italo- Geometric
y1965-205
These vases point to the vibrant exchange of materials, styles, and techniques that occurred across the Mediterranean. The stamnos (a type of mixing bowl) depicts on one side a man who holds the bridle of a horse,below which is a fish—a combination that is more typically seen on the Geometric period pottery of Argos (in the Greek Peloponnese) even though this example was made in Etruria (on the Italian mainland). While also made in Etruria, the oinochoe (jug) was decorated in a style developed in Corinth (also on the Greek mainland) that featured bands of decorative patterns, animals, and plants. Two snakes undulate up the length and to the top of the wide handle, where their heads are joined by a third, bodiless snake head.
Information
Title
Stamnoid jar
Dates
ca. 700–680 BCE
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
21.6 x 27.1 cm, diam. 23.2 cm (8 1/2 x 10 11/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
diam. rim 14.6 cm (5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, John Maclean Magie, Class of 1892, and Gertrude Magie Fund
Object Number
y1965-205
Place Made
South Etruria
Culture
Period
Materials
Subject
Unknown provenance; purchased by the Museum in 1965
- Frances Follin Jones, "A Greek pot of the Geometric period", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 26, no. 1 (1967): p. 4-12., p. 7 (illus.)
- M. Padgett in, S. Langdon, ed., From pasture to polis: art in the age of Homer, (Columbia, MO: Museum of Art and Archaeology, Univ. of Missouri, 1993)., p. 170-173; cat. no. 63
- F. Canciani, "Miti greci nell'arte protoetrusca," in G. Erath, M. Lehner, and G. Schwarz, eds., Komos: festschrift für Thuri Lorenz (Wien: Phoibus, 1997). , p. 50-51; pl. 10, figs, 23-24.
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 320 (illus.)
- Susan Langdon, Art and identity in dark age Greece, 1100- 700 B.C.E., (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008). , p. 209-11; fig. 4.10.
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013)
