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cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/REDMG:1951.137.1

Accession_Number

REDMG:1951.137.1

Shape

Mug lid

Shape_description

Moulded knob, topped by beveled element with inset circle on upper surface; concave stem, attached to a nearly flat lid, with a moulded flange on the underside, slightly concave at centre.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Apulian

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

7.5YR 6/4

Decoration

Inset circle of knob decorated with a cross with chevrons in the angles. Bars on rim of knob. Black stem, reserved band at attachment to lid, which is decorated with a figural scene. Bird (partridge or pigeon) standing profile to right, towards a female head (Aphrodite), profile to left, wearing dotted spiked stephane, sakkos, and a pony tail, as well as white hoop earrings and a dotted necklace. Two dotted four-petal rosettes in field behind her. Scene flanked by two sets of tendrils from which emerge lotus buds, on either side of a palmette from the top of which emerges a lotus bud. Added colour (yellow on white) for details of bird, stephane, jewelry, and flowers. Flange on edge and underside of lid are reserved.

Inscriptions

Condition

Two small chips on the outside of lid, and a larger chip on flange; white and reddish-brown deposits on the underside; glaze cracking above the bird.

Technique/Style

Red figure; added colour

Provenance

Period

Late Classical

Date

360-340

Dating_details

Artist

Lampas Painter

Attribution

Trendall and Cambitoglou, 1.285.233, attribute this lekanis lid to the Lampas Painter, a 'follower of the Plain Style tradition'.

Image

2003.73.0003.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure lekanis lid, showing the interior.
2003.93.0013.jpg	Top view of an Apulian red-figure lekanis lid, showing a woman's head, profile to the left, facing a bird.
2003.93.0014.jpg	Front view of Apulian red-figure lekanis lid.
2003.97.0902.jpg	Front view of Apulian red-figure lekanis lid.
2003.97.0903.jpg	Front view of Apulian red-figure lekanis lid.
2003.97.0904.jpg	Top view of Apulian red-figure lekanis lid, showing floral and figural decoration.
2004.07.0004.jpg	Top view of an Apulian red-figure lekanis lid, showing a woman's head, profile to the left, facing a (wryneck) bird.
2004.07.0005.jpg	Oblique view, from above, of the back of an Apulian red-figure lekanis lid, showing a palmette and floral ornament, as well as a wryneck bird facing a woman's head (not shown).
2004.73.0004.jpg
2004.99.0644.jpg	Oblique view of an Apulian red-figure lekanis lid, showing a palmette and one chip.
2004.99.0645.jpg	Oblique view of an Apulian red-figure lekanis lid, showing a palmette, bird and the head of a woman (Aphrodite) profile facing left, and both chips.
2004.99.0646.jpg	Oblique view of an Apulian red-figure lekanis lid, showing a bird and the head of a woman (Aphrodite) profile facing left.
2004.99.0647.jpg	Oblique view of an Apulian red-figure lekanis lid, showing the head of a woman (Aphrodite) profile facing left and floral decoration.
2004.99.0648.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure lekanis lid, showing the black stem.
2004.99.0654.jpg	Top view of the top of an Apulian red-figure lekanis lid, showing the exterior decoration and knob decorated with a cross with chevrons in the angles.