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Apulian Column Krater

Date

about 320 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek (South Italian, Apulian)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

A: draped woman standing to left in front of a seated warrior in local costume. She wears a long sleeveless chiton and holds a situla in her right hand, and in the left, a cista on top of which are two leaves with white dots, two eggs, and dot-clusters. She also wears a necklace, bracelets, and white slippers. In front of her, seated on a piece of folded drapery, is a young warrior wearing a short tunic patterned with a white central stripe, black stripes and rows of dots, and a yellow girdle. On his head is a conical fur pilos, with white for the tufts and the loop at the top. In his right hand he holds a wreath in white and yellow, and in his left, a spear with a yellow point. He has high-laced shoes on his feet, between which is a flower. Below is a ground line of white dots. In the field are an ivy leaf with white and yellow berries and dot-clusters. B: large female head in profile to left between palmette-fans and scrolls tipped with white. The hair is caught up in a kekryphalos patterned with black and yellow dots and stripes with a band of ray pattern at the top, from which a bunch of curly hair emerges, tied by a white ribbon. She wears a radiate stephane, a bandeau in white across her hair above the brow, and a pendant earring over the ringlets by her ear. The upper eyelid is an acute angle, the pupil of the eye a stroke, and the lower lid a short stroke. Her mouth turns sharply downward. A double-strand white necklace around the neck rises up slightly on either side. The krater has a broad flaring mouth with flat rim and overhanging lip; neck tall and concave; short sloping shoulder; ovoid body. Cylindrical handles with plates at join to rim. Echinus foot with indented, narrow reserved band at join to body. A and B, top of rim: black rays; side of rim: reserved, with two rows of black dots. Tops and sides of handle-plates: black-figured palmette-fans; central leaves of palmettes on top are sprung and patterned with dots and dot clusters. Neck: reserved panels on which is a band of ivy with black leaves and triple berry clusters with white centers. Shoulder: black tongues. Body, either side of picture: vertical reserved band with two rows of black dots separated by black line. Below picture: reserved band with flat-S pattern. Underside of foot: reserved. After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).

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