Pelike

MS3120

Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery

From: Italy | Etruria | Civita Castellana

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS3120
Current Location Greece Gallery - On Display
Culture Attic
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Civita Castellana
Manufacture Location Attica
Locus Tomba a camera a Falerii | Falerii Chamber Tomb
Period Classical Greek Period
Date Made 460-440 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Red Figure
Description

Intact. Where body clay is not covered by glaze it has erroded. On A&B a border of chevrons below and of egg pattern above. A) 2 women standing. Woman at left holds vertical staff in outstretched hand, faces right. Woman at right faces left, hands widely outstretched. B) A fully draped woman, standing, holding a vertical thyrsus (?) in her outstretched hand, facing left.

Height 22.5 cm
Outside Diameter 17 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti; subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898

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