Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2008)

JÁNOS GYÖRGY SZILÁGYI: Archaic Pottery from Veii

pattern framed in the middle with a white line, alternating with red-painted; row of rosettes above the tongues and under the relief ring; to right and left of handle two or three white dot rosettes; on body alternative red and white horizontal lines, with three red lines under one white at bottom; and at the bottom of the body a row of short rays. This type of jug, called olpe in the literature, originated in Corinth in the third quarter of the seventh century.

21 It was imitated in large numbers by Etruscan workshops of the last quarter of the seventh century and the first quarter of the 6th,

22 with both figure decoration and various linear schemes (like the present one).

23 The type later disappeared from Etruscan workshops, or rather was replaced by the Attic type of olpe. It appears that workshops existed in ever larger centre of southern Etruria: most examples found in Veii were clearly made there. Alongside the Etrusco-Corinthian production, the shape was popular in bucchero as well.

24 Bibliography: J. Gy. Szilágyi, Antik Tanulmányok 4 (1957), 189-90, fig. 8; CVA Hongrie 1 (1981) 37-38, pl. 9,4. 5. OINOCHOE. Wheel-made; brownish-yellow clay (10YR 7/4), dark brown glaze (7.5YR 5/4-5/6). Original measurements: height: 16,7 cm (with handle); 13,3 cm (to edge of lip); base: 5,55 cm; largest diameter of body: 14,5 cm. Restored from several fragments; pieces missing from edge of spout and from frieze on body. The vase was broken in an accident and some fragments destroyed; at time of study (2006) the neck and mouth with handle and about two-fifths of the body were missing. Of the remaining pieces, those which could be reassembled were reattached by museum restorer Klára Csáki to the base. The photo archive of the Antiquities Collection retains several 1974 pictures of the vase, which was restored in the 1960s (pi. 6-9). Flattened biconical body which rises in an unbroken line into a low, broad neck and trefoil spout. The spout narrows in front almost to a point, the edges to each side turn inwards slightly near the handle. Triple handle; low foot, with round depression in the middle. Brown glaze on mouth (inside and out), outside of handle, a rectangular patch at root of handle, and outside of foot. On neck horizontal wavy line broken under the handle. On shoulder a row of tongues runs from front on both sides to root of handle, framed on top by two, on bottom by three horizontal lines. Frieze around most of body: two "dogs" running in silhouette to right. Beneath, two horizontal bands, a brown-painted field, and four groups of rays (3 times 6, once 5). The shape of the oinochoe and (to a degree) the decoration

21 follows Corinthian models, but the vase was made in an Etruscan workshop. The flattened biconical shape is unique: there is a somewhat comparable piece (in both shape and decoration, from confiscated illegally excavated material) in the store-room of the Museo di Villa Giulia in Rome;

26 the shape of the