| Collection: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| Summary: | Men chasing foxes |
| Ware: | Attic Geometric |
| Painter: | Attributed to the Hunt Group |
| Date: | ca. 735 BC - ca. 720 BC |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.23 m., D. 0.151 m. |
| Shape: | Oinochoe |
| Ceramic Phase: | LG IIa |
| Period: | Geometric |
Condition:
Trefoil mouth is partly missing.
Decoration Description:
The clay is pale buff, and the surface polished. The decoration is in dark brown glaze, applied unevenly. The body is an elongated sphere cut off for the flat bottom and the neck. The neck has nearly straight sides, and there is a trefoil mouth with the cylindrical handle attached. On the neck is a narrow band of dotted lozenges and a wide band of checker pattern, enclosed by horizontal lines. On the body, the main scene consists of animals (foxes?) in three levels, separated into groups by one man in front,one at the side, and a group of two men on each side of the handle. Each man has a long bent object (whip?) in his left hand. In the field are swastika ornaments. Above the scene is a band of small dotted lozenges, and a band of larger net-work lozenges, enclosed by horizontal lines. Below the scene is a band of small dotted lozenges and a narrow band of chevrons with dots between them, between horizontal lines. A serpent is painted on the handle of the vessel.
Davison places this in the Burly Workshop (85), but Coldstream puts it in the Hunt Group, with
Material Description:
The clay is pale buff.
Collection History:
Richard Norton Memorial Fund, 1925.
Sources Used:
The Iconography of Attic Late Geometric II Pottery (Jonsered 1988) 316, 322, 352, n. 293
Other Bibliography:
Die Gleichnisse Homers und die Bildkunst seiner Zeit (Tübingen 1952) fig. 6