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Accession_Number

REDMG:1950.25.1

Shape

Mug

Shape_description

Type 8B oinochoe. Wide mouth with rounded, slightly overhanging rim flaring out from a broad neck, attached sharply to the top of the barrel-shaped body, with a moulded ring foot, with a vertical upper part and a grooved, slightly broadening lower part; narrow, flat resting surface; slightly concave underside. Two-piece handle, knotted at the top, splays at the attachment to the rim.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Apulian

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

7.5YR 6/4

Decoration

Black interior to bottom of rim. Laurel wreath, to right, on neck, above a row of widely spaced dots. Body decorated with egg-and-dot frieze, between reserved bands, which stops short of the handle on either side; figural zone except beneath handle (palmette with floral blossom at centre, three vertical lines at heart, vegetal ornament and flowing tendrils on either side); inverted waves, to right. Exterior surface of foot is ruddled on the upper part. Reserved resting surface and underside except for black circle at centre, surrounded by broad ruddled band, and black on inner foot ring. The figural scene shows a female figure, dressed in a belted, sleeveless chiton, reclining on her front, profile to right, reaching towards a phiale held by Eros, who advances profile to left, crouched and holding a wreath in his lowered right hand and a phiale in his upraised left hand. Both wear their hair identically: spike stephanai, sakkoi, and pony tails. Behind Eros a bird, profile to the right, on a perirrhanterion (pedestal basin). Added white, gilded with yellow, on floral and vegetal ornament, headdresses, wings, and basin.

Inscriptions

Condition

Nearly complete, except for missing a large chip on the rim (shows signs of previous restoration); handle has been reattached. Decoration cracked around handle attachment; lower part of body gouged in places, as is the underside.

Technique/Style

Red figure; ruddled; added colour (yellow and white)

Provenance

Period

Late Classical

Date

375-350

Dating_details

Artist

Lampas Painter

Attribution

Image

2003.93.0010.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure mug, showing a woman and Eros.
2003.93.0334.jpg	Oblique view of an Apulian red-figure mug, showing exterior decoration and the broken rim.
2003.97.0938.jpg	Right side view, from slightly above, of an Apulian red-figure mug.
2003.97.0939.jpg	Left side view of Apulian red-figure mug.
2003.97.0940.jpg	Top view of Apulian mug, showing the interior.
2003.97.0941.jpg	Bottom view of an Apulian mug, showing the base.
2004.99.0665.jpg	Oblique view, from above, of an Apulian red-figure mug.
2004.99.0666.jpg	Left side view of an Apulian red-figure mug.
2004.99.0667.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure mug, showing a nymph and an Eros.
2004.99.0668.jpg	Right side view of an Apulian red-figure mug, showing bird on a perirrhanterion.
2004.99.0669.jpg	Back view of an Apulian red-figure mug.
2004.99.0670.jpg	Oblique view, from below, of an Apulian red-figure mug.
2004.99.0671.jpg	Bottom view of an Apulian red-figure mug, showing the underside.
2004.99.0672.jpg	Left side view of the knotted handle of an Apulian red-figure mug.
2004.99.0673.jpg	Front view of the knotted handle of an Apulian red-figure mug.
2004.99.0674.jpg	Detail of the body of an Apulian red-figure mug, showing a woman reclining to the right.
2004.99.0675.jpg	Detail of the body of an Apulian red-figure mug, showing a woman reclining to the right.
2004.99.0676.jpg	Detail of the body of an Apulian red-figure mug, showing an Eros, advancing to the left.