Beaked Oinochoe

Description An oinochoe is a vessel for pouring wine. On the shoulder is engraved: [A]NIOVM (Shuthin[a], in reverse, meaning "sepulchral"), indicating the object was consecrated in a tomb and was not to be used by the living. Adorning the top of the handle is a ram's head. The handle's base incorporates a relief of a satyr seated on a wall.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
7/17/1957	Treatment	other

Provenance Mengi and Hakky Bey Collections; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Transcription] "NIOVM" & rams head

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters