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cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/49.1.2

Accession_Number

49.1.2

Shape

Alabastron

Shape_description

A slim alabastron with a small mouth and a projecting rim, an offset neck, lugs on either side of the body near the neck, and a raised three-stepped foot that is slightly concave on the underside.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Apulian

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

5YR 6/4

Decoration

The vessel is covered in black except for decorative bands at the lower part of the neck (red with black vertical lines) and the shoulder (egg-and-dot), the figural scene in the body zone, a frieze (stopt maeanders alternating with cross squares) below the figural zone, narrow bands at the join of body and foot as well as on each step of the foot, and the underside. The scene depicts a nude youth standing in a relaxed pose, 3/4-view to the right. He holds drapery, bunched up, under his left arm, and seems to converse with a drapped woman seated to the left on an undulating rock. She holds a mirror in her right hand. Both are diademed. A small, winged Eros flutters above them, and he has crowned the youth. A single branch emerges from behind the rock. Next comes an older Eros (depicted as an adolescent) seated near profile to the left (the seat is no longer visible), holding an opened box (the type that was used to house alabastra such as that which he decorates, according to Trendall and Cambitoglou 2.605). In the upper left field there is a rectangular motif with a short, black, vertical band on it (perhaps a window), and in the upper right field (behind Eros) a four-part rosette (rodakas) next to a strigil. Below, there is more vegetation. Relief dots detail xxx and added white has been used for xxx.

Inscriptions

Condition

Intact, with only slight chips on the base. The design remains very clear and the glaze is shiny and complete. Only the white paint has suffered a little. There are deposits inside the rim.

Technique/Style

Red figure

Provenance

Period

Late Classical

Date

350-340

Dating_details

Artist

Alabastra Group (perhaps Gioia del Colle Painter; Suckling Painter; Salting Painter)

Attribution

Trendall and Cambitoglou, RVAP 2.605.1, class this work close to that of the Gioia del Colle Painter; Schauenburg noted that it is closely related to the work of the Suckling Painter and the Salting Painter

Image

2003.94.0069.jpg	Back view of an Apulian red-figure alabastron (side B), showing a seated Eros with an opened box.
2003.94.0070.jpg	Left side view of an Apulian red-figure alabastron, showing vegetation under the lug handle.
2003.94.0071.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure alabastron, showing a standing youth conversing with a seated woman.
2003.94.0072.jpg	Right side view of an Apulian red-figure alabastron, showing part of an Eros behind a woman seated on a rock.
2003.94.0074.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above, of an Apulian red-figure alabastron, showing a woman seated on an undulating rock, with a winged Eros hovering above her head.
2003.94.0075.jpg	Top view of an Apulian red-figure alabastron, showing the wide lip.
2003.94.0076.jpg	Bottom view of an Apulian red-figure alabastron, showing the reserved base.
2004.13.0013.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure alabastron, showing a standing youth conversing with a seated woman.
2004.13.0014.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure alabastron, showing an Eros above a seated woman.
2004.13.0015.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure alabastron, showing a standing youth conversing with a seated woman, Eros above.
2004.13.0016.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure alabastron, showing a standing youth conversing with a seated woman, Eros above.
2004.13.0017.jpg	Back view of an Apulian red-figure alabastron, showing a seated Eros with a box.
2004.13.0019.jpg	Back view of an Apulian red-figure alabastron, showing a seated Eros with a box.
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2013.99.0033.jpg	Front view of an Apulian alabastron, showing a crowned nude youth and a draped woman with a winged Eros above them.
2013.99.0034.jpg	Oblique view of an Apulian alabastron, showing the mouth and a crowned nude youth and a draped woman with a winged Eros above them.
2013.99.0035.jpg	Front view of an Apulian alabastron, showing the side with red-figure decoration.
2013.99.0036.jpg	Front view of an Apulian alabastron, showing an older Eros seated in near profile to the left holding an opened box.
2013.99.0037.jpg	Front view of an Apulian alabastron, showing the side with red-figure decoration.
2013.99.0038.jpg	Front view of the mouth of an Apulian alabastron.
2013.99.0039.jpg	Front view of the base of an Apulian alabastron.
2013.99.0040.jpg	Front view of part of an Apulian alabastron, showing an older Eros seated in near profile to the left holding an opened box.
2013.99.0041.jpg	Front view of part of an Apulian alabastron, showing part of a crowned nude youth and a draped woman with a winged Eros above them.
2013.99.0042.jpg	Front view of part of an Apulian alabastron, showing part of a crowned nude youth and part of a draped woman with a winged Eros above them.
2013.99.0043.jpg	Front view of part of an Apulian alabastron, showing a crowned nude youth and part of a draped woman with part of a winged Eros above them.
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2013.99.0198.jpg	Side view of an Apulian red-figure alabastron, showing a seated Eros and a standing man, on either side of an upright plant.
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