Overview: head facing front

Overview: head facing rear

Overview: head facing oblique left front

Overview: head facing oblique right front

Base: view from below

Collection: Toledo Museum of Art
Summary: Plastic vessel in the form of a siren.
Ware: Corinthian
Date: ca. 580 BC - ca. 570 BC
Dimensions:

H. 0.09 m., d. 0.056 m., l. 0.08 m.
Shape: Plastic vessel
Period: Archaic

Decoration Description:

The clay is pale buff, the decoration in red and brown glaze. The vessel's opening is in the top of the head. Two holes for suspension appear in the hair that draped over the shoulders. The head and feet are molded; the latter form a stand for the figure. Strokes, lattice work, wavy lines, zigzags, and in the rear four four-spoked wheels make up the painted decoration of the body and the back of the head.

Shape Description:

Type B of Ducat's group of the Bonn siren (Ducat, J., 1963, Les vases plastiques corinthiens, BCH 87: 431-458)

Sources Used:

CVA, USA fasc. 20, p. 8, pl. 76

Other Bibliography:

Münzen, 6. Mai 1967, p. 50 and pl. 26, no. 105; Riefstahl 1968, p. 30; Bloesch, H., ed., Das Tier in der Antike, Zürich, Archäologisches Institut der Universität, Sept 21-Nov. 17, 1974, pp. 44f. and pl. 45, no. 266.