pelike
- Museum number
- 1772,0320.329
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured pelike.
(a) Woman closely draped in himation and chiton, wearing earrings and fillet around her looped-up hair, confronted on right by youth in mantle, holding out in right taenia; he has wavy hair falling to shoulders, and a fillet.
(b) Woman, as in a, to right.
Fine, graceful, becoming careless. Purple headdresses. Eye in simple profile type, with eyelashes. Below each side, a thin red line; above, egg pattern.
- Production date
- 440BC-430BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 12.70 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc39)
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1772,0320.329
