Pelike
47-2-1
From: Italy | Apulia | Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 47-2-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Apulian | South Italian |
| Provenience | Italy | Apulia | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location | Apulia |
| Date Made | -350 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Red Figure |
| Iconography | Woman | Wreath | Youth | Cane | Strigil |
| Description | A. Nude youth, frontal, head toward left, right leg forward, left leg strongly extended back to right. His right arm is extended toward left holding a vertical gnarled cane. His left arm is extended to the right holding a strigil in his hand. Wreath in hair. B. Fully clothed woman advances toward stele (?) at left, looking back, wreath (?) in right hand, left extended back toward right. Intact. Pinkish buff clay. Good black glaze. |
| Height | 22 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 15.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. F. Woodson Hancock and Mrs. Lea Hudson, 1947 |
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