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Red Figure Plate

1922.01.0059

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Artifact Identification Red Figure Plate   (1922.01.0059)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Materials T&E
    2. :
  2. Food Service T&E
    3. :
  3. Eating Vessels
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period Hellenistic
Date 320– 310 BCE
Culture South Italian Greek, Apulian

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Diameter) 23.8 cm
Dimension 2 (Diameter) 7.1 cm
Dimension 3 (Height) 5.7 cm
Weight 534 g
Measuring Remarks Under Review
Materials Ceramic--Terracotta, Pigment--Glaze
Manufacturing Processes Throwing, Firing, Glazing, Painting

Research Remarks

Description

APULIAN RED-FIGURE PLATE
Shape and Ornament: Convex body, slightly offset rim, disk foot. Interior rim reserved with vertical lines. On the exterior, rim reserved and covered with a red wash, band above foot reserved. SUBJECT: On the interior, a woman's head in profile to left. She wears a necklace, a stephane, and a sakkos. A tympanum (?) in front of her face, a floral behind her neck. Around the head, a wave pattern, a band, and a lotus wreath.
Accessory Colors: White: lotus buds. Yellow: sakkos, stephane, necklace, and tympanum.
Attributed to the Kantharos Group of the White Saccos Workshop by A. D. Trendall (in a letter dated 8/3/79). About 320-310 B.C. -- Wisseman, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Plate 52,3; 55,3.
Published Description Under Review
Bibliography

Trendall, A. D. and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-figure Vases of Apulia, vol. II. Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1982. Page 999, no. 5112.

Wisseman, Sarah U. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Philipp von Zabern: Mainz, 1989. Page 41, Plate 52,3; 55,3.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication University of Marburg Archaeological Seminar Collection
Reproduction No

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