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Pitcher (oinochoe) with butcher's shop scene
Greek
Late Archaic Period
about 500–490 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Black Figure
Dimensions
Height: 25.9 cm (10 3/16 in.); diameter: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number99.527
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionA butcher cutting up meat. Meaningless inscription. The bearded butcher wields a knife and wears a white loincloth (perizoma) and an (ivy?) wreath. He is about to cut up a haunch and the leg of a hooved animal over an altar-like block. A nude boy with a decorated mantle over his arm steadies the leg on the table. Two pieces of meat are on a table behind. A basin is placed below them, presumably to catch the blood. Another haunch of meat hangs from vines in the background.
InscriptionsMeaningless inscriptions to right of the scene and behind the boy's head.
ProvenanceEdward Perry Warren (b. 1860 - d. 1928), Rome and London; 1899, sold by Edward Perry Warren to the MFA for $32,500 [see note]. (Accession Date: December 24, 1899)
NOTE: Total price paid for MFA accession nos. 99.338 - 99.542. According to information provided by Warren, this oinochoe was sent from Italy.
NOTE: Total price paid for MFA accession nos. 99.338 - 99.542. According to information provided by Warren, this oinochoe was sent from Italy.