Pretty sure this is legit ancient Greek. The thrift store person who sold it to me said it had the correct blue ware glazing. Pretty cool scene with some bystander in a "swimming toga" high fiving two charioteers. This was all of $10. Now the pride of my collection. Go ahead and post something appropriate to this thread! *cringe* John
Nice blue Greek bottle. My oldest bottle is a Mountain Dew from the early 1960's. With a Mason's Strawberry Soda cap. I can see several floaters in the bottle. I think the saying on the "reverse" is true.
Whenever I'm having a bad day, I gaze at this "ancient" Greek artwork hanging by my front door. No matter how bad the day, it probably isn't going to be as bad as the day Actaeon the Hunter glimpsed Artemis bathing - she turned his own dogs against him. And, according to this "ancient" Greek ceramic, she apparently shot him full of arrows to boot. I know this is authentic and Greek because it is signed on the back. Provenance: Indiana Salvation Army Store. P.S. Consulting Wikipedia for this post, I was delighted to find that ancient sources, which cannot tell us what an "antoninianus" was really called, gives the names for all of Actaeon's dogs: "The following list is as given in Hyginus' Fabulae. The first part of the list is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book III, 206–235), and the second from an unknown source. Note: In the first part of the list, Hyginus fails to correctly differentiate between masculine and feminine names. According to Ovid Dogs: Melampus, Ichnobates, Pamphagos, Dorceus, Oribasos, Nebrophonos, Laelaps, Theron, Pterelas, Hylaeus, Ladon, Dromas, Tigris, Leucon, Asbolos, Lacon, Aello, Thoos, Harpalos, Melaneus, Labros, Arcas, Argiodus, Hylactor. Bitches: Agre, Nape, Poemenis, Harpyia, Canache, Sticte, Alce, Lycisce, Lachne, Melanchaetes, Therodamas, Oresitrophos. Authors other than Ovid Dogs: Acamas, Syrus, Leon, Stilbon, Agrius, Charops, Aethon, Corus, Boreas, Draco, Eudromus, Dromius, Zephyrus, Lampus, Haemon, Cyllopodes, Harpalicus, Machimus, Ichneus, Melampus, Ocydromus, Borax, Ocythous, Pachylus, Obrimus; Bitches: Argo, Arethusa, Urania, Theriope, Dinomache, Dioxippe, Echione, Gorgo, Cyllo, Harpyia, Lynceste, Leaena, Lacaena, Ocypete, Ocydrome, Oxyrhoe, Orias, *Sagnos, Theriphone, *Volatos, *Chediaetros"
Clearly from the Bacchus-Dionysius Vineyards of Utopia, Atlantis, circa the second or third year of the 696th Olympiad, a very good year for Demeter corn. Eureka, what a find.
Nope, don't collect bottles. I was ok with the Jim Beam, but when @Clavdivs tossed out the Ouzo, it reminded me WHY I cannot STAND that stuff! (It also reminds me of that gawd-awful Soju... it was even packaged in lighter fluid styl plastic bottles...) After too much of that stuff, you could be like this emaciated bull from Carthage: Carthage 216-215 BCE Sardinia mint AE 3.3g Tanit L - BULL stndg R CNP 377a
Love the skinny bull... That has real character. Just a celator whim or a reference to bad harvest? John
Those ultra-modern ancient Greek items are so impressive. As for failing to correctly differentiating between masculine or feminine dog's names, without going into great detail, maybe the gender, at times, was neither. Lastly, the only Greek dog's name I'm familiar with is Cerberus, the hound of Hades, a monstrous dog that guards the entrance to the nether world. In case I meet him before you all do, I'll flip a coin for him, and I expect that should pacify him ?
Ancient pet names are interesting. The "Megerius Mosaic" shows that even animals slaughtered in Roman games were given names. Here you see leopards Victor, Crispinus, Luxurius and Romanus being slain in Roman Tunisia... Of numismatic interest, the guy towards the left with the tray is carrying bags of denarii - the symbol on each bag indicating "1000" - payment for the hunters ("DENARIOS QVINGENIOS" in the inscription). A rare instance of coins (even bagged) shown in an ancient work of art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magerius_Mosaic By Sousse_museum_Smirat.jpg: Pascal Radiguederivative work: Pethrus (talk) - Sousse_museum_Smirat.jpg, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10238235