A stamnos (plural stamnoi; adjective stamnoid) is a type of Greek pottery used to store liquids. [1] Stamnoi had a foot, wide mouths, [ 2 ] lids and handles on their shoulders. The earliest known examples come from archaic Laconia and Etruria , and they began to be manufactured in …

This refined Athenian stamnos (pl. stamnoi) was used to mix water and wine. Also valued for its beauty, this red-figure vessel (so called because the figures remain the natural color of the clay) portrays either Greek women or maenads, female participants in …

Below, a band of sets of three maeanders separated by dotted cross squares; above, tongue; round lip and handles, egg pattern. Above and below handles, pattern composed of six palmettes. On the depiction of Midas with donkey ears in the context of Attic images of Phrygians see De Vries 2000, 346-8 and fig. 13.5.

Title: Terracotta stamnos (jar) Artist: Attributed to the Menelaos Painter. Period: Classical. Date: ca. 450 BCE. Culture: Greek, Attic. Medium: Terracotta; red-figure. Dimensions: H. 14 7/8 in. (37.8 cm) diameter 11 7/8 in. (30.2 cm) Classification: Vases. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906. Object Number: 06.1021.178

One differentiating component in the Etruscan or perhaps Faliscan approach is the embrace of white paint and lines and dots that are often thicker and brushier. As a work attributed to the Fluid Group, its style has been identified on several other vessels such as a similar terracotta stamnos housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Title: Terracotta stamnos (jar) Period: Classical. Date: early 5th century BCE. Culture: Greek, Attic. Medium: Terracotta; red-figure. Dimensions: Overall: 15 3/4 x 18 5/8in. (40 x 47.3cm) diameter (neck) 15 1/4in. (38.7cm) Classification: Vases. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1910. Object Number: 10.210.15

Red-figure stamnos. Figures on both sides stands on a groundline consisting of a maeander pattern. A series of palmettes appear under and above each handle. Side A: a thiasos. Dionysos stands in the center flanked on either side by a pair of satyrs and maenads.

This stamnos features one large register with a head in profile flanked by ducks. On the shoulder is a row of tongues. The designs are molded and incised. The Etruscans were a confederation of city-states in central Italy during the 7th-3rd centuries BCE.

The stamnos (pl. stamnoi; possibly connected with Greek histemi - I set up) is a broad-shouldered, round-shaped vessel, with a low foot and a low neck. Its two horizontal handles usually curl upwards to some degree. It is produced from the late sixth century into the later fifth. Most have been found in Etruria.

Stamnos (Mixing Jar), About 450 B.C. This refined Athenian stamnos was used to hold and mix wine. Also valued for its beauty, this red-figure vessel (so called because the figures remain the natural color of the clay) portrays maenads, women participants in …