Proto-Corinthian Olpe Fragment (New photography)

Reconstructed from several fragments, missing the mouth, neck, and handle; decorated with four registers of animal friezes. In the first (top) register: feline to right; two confronted sphinxes flanking a bird, or perhaps a siren; head of a panther to left. In the second register: hindquarters of a lion to left; hound to right; hind leg and nose of a grazing goat to right; forelegs of a feline to left. In the third register: feline or hound to left; grazing goat to right; two panthers back to back; two confronted sphinxes flanking a swan; ear of a feline. In the fourth (bottom) register: feline or hound to left; boar to right; panther to left; grazing goat to right; hind legs, probably of a feline, to right; bull to right; head of lion to left. Rosettes are distributed among the animals in each frieze.