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Apulian Plate

Date

about 330–320 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

South Italian (Apulian)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

Shallow bowl with a raised flat rim, and a foot in two degrees on a thick short stem. Tondo: head of a woman in profile to left. She wears a hair covering (kekryphalos) decorated with black and white stripes, a band of white crenellated pattern on black, and a solid white upper portion. Her hair comes down below the kekryphalos in three wavy lines. The bunch of hair at the back is tied with a wavy white ribbon, and on the hair above the brow is a radiate stephane. The woman wears a pendant earring and a double-strand necklace. To the left in the field are two dot-clusters and a white-edged ivyleaf. The tondo has a wave-pattern border, with a thick black stripe beneath it, between two reserved bands. Around the rim: thick black strokes. The outside of the bowl is lusterless black; with a reserved band at the junction of foot and body. The underside of the foot is reserved and decorated with a wide black stripe. After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).

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