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Red Figure Bail-Amphora

1922.01.0156

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Artifact Identification Red Figure Bail-Amphora   (1922.01.0156)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Materials T&E
    2. :
  2. Food Processing & Preparation T&E
    3. :
  3. Food Storage Equipment
Artist/Maker Cassandra Painter
Geographic Location
Period Hellenistic
Date 350– 300 BCE
Culture South Italian Greek

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Height) 28.8 cm
Dimension 2 (Diameter) 10.5 cm
Dimension 3 (Diameter) 9.5 cm
Weight 537 g
Measuring Remarks Under Review
Materials Ceramic--Terracotta, Pigment--Glaze
Manufacturing Processes Throwing, Firing, Painting, Glazing, Handbuilding

Research Remarks

Description

CAMPANIAN RED-FIGURE BAIL-AMPHORA: Shape and Ornament: Torus mouth, round handle with oblique grooves and knob on top, flaring foot. On neck, elongated tongues. Scrolls and band on shoulder. On body, full palmettes on either side, reserved band below figured scenes. Glaze stops inside neck.
Subject: A, Woman's head, seen in profile facing left. She wears a patterned sakkos, stephane, necklace, and earring with triple dots. B, Standing youth, facing left with spear in his right hand and cloak on his left arm. Relief contour for cloak, genitals, features of youth. Dilute glaze for sakkos details, eyebrow on A; youth's sandals on B.
Accessory Colors: Yellow: A, stephane, earring, necklace, and ribbon. B, headdress, jewelry, and sandals.
Ex A. Preyss Collection, Munich.
Attributed to a sub-group of the Cassandra Painter by AD.Trendall (in a letter dated 8/3/79). Mid-fourth century B.C. --Wisseman, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Plate 54, 1-2
Published Description Under Review
Bibliography

Wisseman, Sarah U. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Philipp von Zabern: Mainz, 1989.
Page 43, Plate 54, 1-2.

Beazley, LCS, p. 226, no. 2 (3).

Artifact History

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

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