pelike
- Museum number
- 1836,0224.142
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured pelike.
Designs red on black ground, with white accessories; imperfectly fired. Above the designs, (a) rosettes, egg-moulding, and pendants; (b) laurel-wreath and white dots. Under the handles, palmettes; below the designs, maeander all round.
(a) Female figure seated to right on a white four-legged stool, with hair gathered in a radiated opisthosphendone, earrings, double necklace, bracelets, long chiton, himation, and sandals; her feet rest on a low footstool, and she plays on a magadis. Before her is a youth leaning against a white laver on a fluted stand; he wears a wreath and holds a knotted staff in left hand, and over his left arm is a chlamys; he holds out right hand to caress a fawn which looks up at him. Above is Eros hovering to left, with hair gathered in a radiated opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, strings of beads over right shoulder and round left thigh, anklets, and sandals; in right hand a wreath, in left a phiale and a white ball hanging from a string. In the field behind the youth is a taenia, and above are two others.
(b) Female figure seated on a rock to right with hair gathered up under an open beaded cap, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton fastened on shoulders, and white sandals; in left hand she holds out a phiale. Before her is a youth with fillet ornamented with trefoils, sandals, knotted staff, and chlamys wrapped round left arm, holding a mirror in right hand; between them a taenia, and above, an embroidered taenia and a pair of halteres. The ground-lines are
indicated by dots.
- Production date
- 320BC-310BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 23.30 centimetres
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Height: 38 centimetres
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Height: 38.10 centimetres
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Weight: 2.05 kilograms
- Location
- On display (G73/dc18)
- Condition
- Repaired.
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1836,0224.142
