Pelike
50-1-102
From: Apulia | Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 50-1-102 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Apulian | South Italian |
| Provenience | Apulia | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location | Apulia |
| Date Made | 399-300 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Red Figure |
| Iconography | Ball |
| Description | A. Woman seated on a four-tiered rock facing right. She holds a wreath in her right hand and in her left, raised up, a ladder-like "xylophone" (for the xylophone see Eva Keuls, "The Apulian Xylophone", AJA 83, 1979, pp. 476-477). Woman seated on a rock facing left. B. She juggles a ball with her extended right hand. Intact. Buff clay. Warm buff slip. Good black glaze. An M painted on the underside. |
| Height | 15 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 9.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. R. Hare Davis, 1950 |
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