This unusual three-handled jug is decorated with molded appliqué disks. Two are from the same mold and depict the Greek mythological figures Atalanta and Hippomenes. The third appliqué shows a religious procession with the cult statue of the Egyptian goddess Isis being paraded in a cart. The jug is said to have been found at Arausio (modern Orange, Southern France), but it was probably made in a workshop at either Lyon or Vienne in the upper Rhône Valley.
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Title:Three-handled jug with relief medallions
Period:Imperial
Date:late 2nd–early 3rd century CE
Culture:Roman
Medium:Terracotta; Rhône Valley ware
Dimensions:H. 8 9/16 in. (21.7 cm); diameter 7 1/4 in. (18.5 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number:17.194.870
Said to be from Arausio (modern Orange, Southern France)
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Froehner, Wilhelm. 1903. Collection Julien Gréau. Verrerie antique, émaillerie et poterie appartenant à M. John Pierpont Morgan no. 135, pp. 279–80, pl. 344.1–3, Paris.
Déchelette, Joseph. 1904. Les Vases Céramiques Ornés de la Gaule Romaine (Narbonnaise, Aquitaine et Lyonnaise), II. pp. 237, 281, 286, Paris: Picard.
Walters, Henry Beauchamp. 1905. History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, Vol. 1. p. 532, fig. 228, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Minto, Antonio. 1919. "La Corsa di Atalante e Hippomenes." Ausonia, 9: p. 85, fig. 4.
Alföldi, Andreas. 1938. "Tonmodel und Reliefmedaillons aus den Donauländern." Laureae Aquincenses memoriae Valentini Kuzsinsky dicatae, I, Dissertationes pannonicae, II, : p. 58, 4.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1939. Guide to the Collections: Ancient and Oriental Art--Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek and Roman Far Eastern, Near Eastern Oriental Armor, Vol. 1, World's Fair Edition. p. 43, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sautel, Joseph. 1939. Carte Archéologique de la Gaule Romaine: Carte et Texte Complet du Département de Vaucluse, VII. no. 21, p. 118, Paris: Ernest Leroux.
Wuilleumier, Pierre. 1952. Les Médaillons d'Applique Gallo-Romains de la Vallée du Rhône, Annales de l'Université de Lyon. Troisième série, Lettres, 22. p. 10, Paris: Les Belles Lettres.
Alföldi, Andreas. 1965-1966. "Die Alexandrinische Götter und die Vota Publica am Jahresbeginn." Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, 8/9: pl. 10, 1.
Audin, Amable and H. Vertet. 1972. "Médaillons d'Applique à Sujets Religieux des Vallées du Rhône et de l'Allier." Gallia, Archéologie de la France Antique, 30: pp. 250–51, fig. 11.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1981. Vol. 1: Aara-Aphlad. "Anubis," p. 868, no. 45, pl. 692, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1994. Vol. 7: Oidipous-Theseus. "Palaistra," p. 145; "Schoineus," p. 703, no. 1a, pl. 523, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
Merkelbach, Reinhold. 1995. Isis regina, Zeus Sarapis: die griechisch-ägyptische Religion nach den Quellen dargestellt. no. 288, p. 155, Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner.
Bodel, John P. and Stephen Tracy. 1997. Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA : A Checklist. p. 198, Rome: American Academy in Rome.
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