pelike
- Museum number
- 1824,0501.13
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured pelike.
(a) Domestic scene. Beside a tall-backed chair on left stands a woman, holding in right a purple flower (?), in left a conical object covered in a network of lines. She wears a chiton, himation and fillet wound several times round head. Confronting her on right is an attendant girl (?) of small stature and short hair, wearing a soft sleeveless chiton undertied, and holding a taenia and smegmatotheke (soap-holder), decorated in light brown with ivy leaves. Between them, a utensil in the shape of a swan to right; above it, an inscription, apparently in imitation of Λάχης καλός.
(b) Woman standing to front, looking to left and holding out in right hand an apple coloured purple; in her left is a mirror. She wears chiton, himation, and saccos. On the bottom of the foot, an incised character, A.
Purple flower, fruit, taenia, inscription, and fillet. Light brown decorations of mirror, &c, and details of swan, also ends of hair in a. Eye in profile. Below a, a strip, sets of three maeanders, separated by black cross squares; above, a strip of horizontal palmette ornament. Above and below b, a strip of maeander. At the lower insertion of each handle, a palmette inverted.
- Production date
- 460BC-450BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 22 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- On display (G20a/dc37)
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1824,0501.13
