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L-64-245

From: Italy | Apulia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number L-64-245
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Gnathian | South Italian
Provenience Italy | Apulia
Manufacture Location Gnathia
Date Made 300 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Impressed egg pattern around rim. On neck, A and B, elaborate grape vine. On body three zones of decoration: top, A and B, closely set reeding; middle, undulating vine pattern; below, closely set reeding. Around sloping edge of foot, egg-and-dart. Double handles of the Herakles knot variety. Each of the two coils of each handle terminates above in an identical, frontal relief head, perhaps female. Tongue pattern around the lower part and base of each handle.

Height 32.5 cm
Other Number 99-373 - Philadelphia Museum of Art Number

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