phiale
- Museum number
- 1824,0501.33
- Description
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Apulian red-figured pottery phiale.
Design red and white on black ground, with border of white laurel-wreath and wave-pattern. Vertical handles with knobs on the top and either side, on which are painted white stars.
Interior: Female figure seated to left on an Ionic capital painted whit her hair is tied in a bunch, and she wears a beaded open cap, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton fastened with fibulae on the shoulders, and shoes; in right hand a phiale and white ball, in left hand a bunch of grapes. Before her is a female figure with left foot on raised ground, similarly attired, holding a fan in right hand and a situla in left. Behind the first figure is a flower; the ground-lines are indicated. In the exergue, egg-moulding and dots.
- Production date
- 330BC-310BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 37.80 centimetres
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Height: 14 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Repaired.
- Acquisition date
- 1824
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1824,0501.33
