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pelike

• Object type

  • pelike

• Museum number

  1867,0508.1277

• Description

  Red figured pottery pelike.
  Designs red on black ground, with white accessories. Above, (a) rosettes and white balls, (b) laurel-wreath. Under the handles, palmettes; below, all round, wave-pattern.
  (a) Youth to right, with beaded fillet, himation over left arm, and wreath in right hand, holding out a phiale in left hand. Facing him is a female figure with hair in a bunch, radiated open cap, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton fastened on shoulders with a stripe down the front, and sandals; in right hand a mirror, in left a tympanon. Above, a rosette, wreath, and window; between them, a convolvulus-flower; behind the youth, a myrtle.
  (b) Two ephebi confronted, with fillets, himatia, and sandals; the one on the right has a staff; between them, halteres.

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• Producer name

  • Painted by: The Ginosa Painter

• Culture/period

  • Apulian (Greek)

• Date

  • 360BC-345BC

• Production place

  • Made in: Apulia
  • (Europe,Italy,Puglia,Apulia (region - archaic))

• Findspot

  • Excavated/Findspot: Nola, 143
  • (Europe,Italy,Campania,Naples (province),Nola)

• Materials

  • pottery

• Ware

  • Red Figure

• Technique

  • painted

• Dimensions

  • Height: 28.5 centimetres

• Bibliography

  • RVAp 14/111a
  • Vase F318

• Location

  On display: G1/wp52/sh9

• Acquisition name

  • Purchased from: Louis, Duc de Blacas d'Aulps
  • Previous owner/ex-collection: Louis, Duc de Blacas d'Aulps

• Acquisition date

  1867

• Department

  Greek & Roman Antiquities

• Registration number

  1867,0508.1277