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Apulian Bull Head Rhyton

Date

about 360 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

South Italian (Apulian)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

The bull’s head has natural-looking fleshy wrinkles over its eyes and curly texture of hair on the forehead. Around the horns, short incised lines. The nostrils, eyes, and inside of the ears are reserved, with orange-red overwash. The pupils and irises are drawn in black glaze. Added white and yellow appear for the ground line, adjuncts, and pattern. On the bowl: maenad, wearing a long sleeveless chiton and two bracelets on each arm, dancing to left, holding a tambourine in her left hand. Two ivy leaves in the upper left field. A wave pattern encircles the lip, except above the junction of handle and bowl. An enclosed palmette-fan adorns either side of the handle. After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).

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