Two Antiquities, 14th/4th Century B.C.

comprising a Mycenaean pottery spouted jar, late 14th/13th Century B.C., of ovoid form with stirrup handle, the body decorated in red with a continuous undulating band between encircling horizontal bands, a wavy line on the shoulder, and an Etruscan terracotta votive head of a boar, circa 4th Century B.C., with indented nostrils, erect ears, and prominent crest, a circular vent-hole at the back.

Christie's, London, July 10th/11th, 1974, no. 305, illus., for the first
Sotheby's, London, July 9th, 1974, no. 146, illus., for the second

Jar: spout restored, surface somewhat worn and partly encrusted; head: tips of tusks chipped, back of proper left ear and back of crest chipped, surface somewhat worn
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Fore related jars see Das mykenische Hellas. Heimat der Helden Homers, Athens, 1988, nos. 184 and 186.