kantharos
- Museum number
- 1867,0508.1162
- Description
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Red figured pottery kantharos.
Designs red on black ground, with accessories of white and yellow. Round the rim and below each design, egg-moulding. At the upper junctures of the handles are heads in relief.
(a) Eros flying to right, with hair in a bunch, striped beaded cap, earrings, necklace, bracelets, strings of beads over left shoulder and round right thigh, anklet on right leg, and shoes; in right hand a cista on which are wavy lines, and a wreath, in left a yellow situla; by his side a dolphin to right; behind him, an ivy-leaf. On either side of the design, an Ionic column.
(b) Female figure seated on a rock to left, with hair tied in a bunch, striped beaded cap, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long chiton fastened with fibulae on the shoulders, white girdle and yellow shoes, in right hand a box with open lid, in her lap a fan. On either side, an Ionic column.
- Production date
- 330BC-310BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 22.50 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G1/wp58/sh12)
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1867,0508.1162
