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Apulian Red-Figure Bell Krater

Date

about 330–320 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek (South Italian, Apulian)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

A: woman in a long chiton, girt at the waist with a black ribbon, with a double black stripe down the side and a wavy lower border, moving left, holding a mirror in her right hand and a cista with two sprays in her left. She looks to right toward a nude Eros, who carries a tambourine in his right hand and a fillet in his left. A fillet is in the field at the left, a plant between the feet of Eros, and a window in the upper right field. B, two draped youths, each with a staff, facing each other. Between them is a stele with a black-dotted wreath above Broken and reassembled from many fragments. Orange wash on body. Flaring rim, upswung horizontal handles, body tapering to tall stem; ring foot in one degree; incised line near top and reserved band at lower edge. Under rim: laurel wreath to left between reserved bands. Below each handle: palmette pattern with side-scrolls. Around handle-roots: black tongues; between handle-roots: reserved area. Around vase, below pictures: meander pattern interrupted by quartered and dotted squares between two reserved lines. Underside of foot: reserved. After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).

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