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Apulian Red-Figure Lekanis

Date

about 320 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek (South Italian, Apulian)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

Lid: on opposite sides, in panels framed by reserved bands, two female heads in profile to left. Each wears a radiate stephane; a hair covering (kekryphalos) with black and white stripes, with the strokes at the top separated by white dots; an earring; and a necklace. Between them and below the handle are palmette-fans. In the lower left corner of each panel is a small palmette-fan, in the right, a fan and a scroll with two leaves. Reconstructed from numerous fragments; chips missingfrom handle, lid, and bowl. Underside of foot partially covered with red wash. Domed lid with downturned rim and double loop handle tied in form of Herakles knot. Bowl with inset rim; conical foot. Side of lid: vertical black stripes on reserved band; inside: reserved. Except for broad reserved band around stem of foot, entire bowl is black. After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).

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