MG7047
- Identifiant unique
- MG7047
- Objet
- fr Oenochoé
- Technique et format (vases)
- fr Style de Gnathia
- Aire de production
- Apulie
- Interval temporel
- 400 av. J.-C. – 299 av. J.-C.
- Mesures (cm, grammes)
- Height 8,1 cm.; lip diam. 6,6 cm.
- Lieu de découverte
- Fiesole
- Références numériques
- Cliché sur Flickr
- Description et commentaires sur les représentations
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"The main decoration of the vase shows a pot-bellied character armed with a club, placed in front of a three-headed dog. The painted figures are freely inspired by previous iconographies (Cerberus and other images from the Phylax tradition), reinterpreted with a certain clumsiness.
Our protagonist could represent a scene inspired by a Phlyax farce in which the actor plays the role of Herakles struggling with Cerberus. According to some scholars, the original word “ϕλύαξ”, Phlyax, could be traslated as "talker". Among the South Italy Dorians ϕλύαξ was, probably, the name of a demon whose representations had a magical and propitiatory meaning for the harvest and for vegetation. Later, lost the original meaning of the word, the term Phlyax would have been used to indicate the phallic actors of the popular farces among the Dorians of southern Italy.
The complementary decoration mentions motifs from the Gnathia pottery (vine shoots, laurel trees, hanging bandages, etc.) heavily arranged in repetitive series.
The vase, a oinochoe, made with light orange clay covered in shiny black paint, is intact.The overall decoration, overpainted in white, red and yellow-brown varnish, is the result of a modern restoration" (Source: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Fiesole, Collezione Costantini, Vol. 2 via Flickr)
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