Red Figure Knob-Handled Patera
1922.01.0069
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Basic Information
Artifact Identification | Red Figure Knob-Handled Patera (1922.01.0069) |
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Classification/ Nomenclature |
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Artist/Maker | Menzies Group of the Patera-Ganymede Workshop |
Geographic Location |
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Period/Date | Hellenistic, 330– 320 BCE |
Culture | South Italian Greek |
Location | On Exhibitin the Ancient Mediterranean exhibit |
Physical Analysis
Dimension 1 (Width) | 37.7 cm |
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Dimension 2 (Diameter) | 33.4 cm |
Dimension 3 (Height) | 9.7 cm |
Weight | 1575 g |
Measuring Remarks | D1 includes the handles. D2 is the rim diameter without handles. The foot diameter is 12.9 cm. |
Materials | Ceramic--Terracotta, Pigment--Glaze |
Manufacturing Processes | Throwing, Firing, Painting, Glazing, Handbuilding |
Munsell Color Information | Black ( N 2.5) -ns Dark Orange Yellow ( 7.5 Y R 6/6) -ns |
Research Remarks
Published Description | APULIAN RED-FIGURE KNOB-HANDLED PATERA Shape and Ornament: Flat mouth with raised outer edge, grooved foot. Each fluted handle has a knob in the center and one knob on either side. Rosettes on all six knobs. Top side of rim reserved. Exterior foot encircled by a wave pattern. All reserved areas covered with red wash. SUBJECT: The primary decoration is on the interior. A woman carrying a box in her right hand and a tympanum in her left runs left. She wears a peplos, kekryphalos, and jewelry. A floral composed of half-palmettes and volutes rises from the ground line on the left. Below the ground line, a band of egg-and-dot. In the exergue is a phiale. The central scene is bordered by concentric bands of waves, a reserved line, and a laurel wreath. On the exterior: A, Woman seated on a rock holds a mirror in her right hand and a phiale and fillet in her left. She wears a peplos, kekryphalos with stephane, necklace, double bracelets, and belt. A tympanum and fillet hang on the wall. B, An Eros flying left, who bears a phiale draped with a fillet in his right hand and a branch in his left. Palmettes flanked by floral motifs and rosettes between the two figures, below each handle. Relief contour throughout, except for dilute glaze on: lower border of woman's peplos and her tasseled sash in the tondo, wing of Eros on B. Rough circular sketch lines visible around tondo figure. Accessory colors: White: Interior, on the woman's stephane, jewelry, shoes, box, tympanum, phiale, and laurel wreath. Exterior, on Eros' wing and the dots above the phiale. Yellow: knob rosettes, woman's shoes, phiale, tympanum, and background dots. Exterior, on woman's jewelry, belt, shoes, rock, mirror, phiale, fillets, and tympanum; Eros' jewelry, wings, phiale, fillet, branch; details of palmettes and florals. -- Wisseman, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Plates 51, 1-2 and 52, 1. |
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Description | N/A |
Comparanda | Askos, Newark 50.310 (Trendall and Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia. Vol. II. 1982. P. 847, no. 448, pl. 316:5) Volute-krater, Oxford 1947.265 (Trendall and Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia. Vol. II. 1982. P. 727, no. 11, pl 286:4). |
Bibliography | Bohen, B. et al, From Alexander to Augustus. University of Illinois: Champaign, 1983. Trendall, A. D. and Alexander Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia. Vol. II. Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1982. Page 849, no. 473a. Wisseman, Sarah U. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Philipp von Zabern: Mainz, 1989. Page 40, Plates 51,1-2;52,1. Also see student paper by Harris, Gauthier, and Eshleman, 2012P.0072. |
Artifact History
Archaeological Data | N/A |
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Credit Line/Dedication | University of Marburg Archaeological Seminar Collection |
Reproduction | no |
Reproduction Information | N/A |