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Accession_Number

REDMG:1951.151.1

Shape

Squat lekythos

Shape_description

According to Trendall and Cambitoglou, RFVA 1.278.149, this is a special lekythos shape. Cup mouth, slightly flaring at the top, with a broad rim, convex on the upper surface; the mouth is offset from a short cylindrical neck that broadens toward the bulbous squat body; short ring base, rounded in profile, with narrow, flat resting surface and recessed underside; strap handle rises from the upper part of the shoulder, along the side of the neck and curves to rejoins at the lowest part of the shoulder.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Apulian

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

10YR 7/4

Decoration

Black glaze all over, except for red rim, two superimposed decorative friezes at the base of the neck (ribbing between two black lines, egg-and-dots between two black lines, yellow dots below); figural frieze between tendrils; beneath handle one palmette sits atop a second palmette enclosed in tendrils that terminate above in volutes from which emerge further tendrils, ending in volutes, that sprout yet another set of tendrils; egg frieze between two reserved bands encircles the entire body and serves as a groundline for the figures; reserved underside. The scene depicts a youth, nude except for two bands in his hair and a chlamys draped over his bent left arm, advancing (dancing?) in 3/4-view to the right, following two maenads, all advancing in 3/4-view to the right, although the last two maenads turn their heads profile to the left. All three maenads wear two bands in their hair (the last, however, appears as a single thick band), beaded necklaces, belted, sleeveless chitons, and snake bracelets on their left arms (the first maenad has a similar bracelet on her right arm). The youth and the first two maenads hold thyrsoi in their left hands. The third maenad holds a wreath in her lowered left hand. All red surfaces are ruddled, except for the underside, including resting surface. Some added white and yellow highlight details on heads, jewelery and thyrsoi.

Inscriptions

Condition

Rim chipped and foot pitted; surface in excellent condition except for cracks around handle attachments, tan deposits on handle and underside.

Technique/Style

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

Provenance

Period

Late Classical

Date

360-340

Dating_details

Artist

Thrysus Painter; Lecce Group

Attribution

Trendall and Cambitoglou, RFVA 1.278.149, attribute this lekythos to the Thyrsus Painter, 'whose work is connected with that of the Lecce Painter in his later phase' (RFVA 1.274).

Image

2003.93.0019.jpg	Left side view of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing a youth with a thyrsos.
2003.93.0020.jpg	Right side view of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing two maenads (with thyrsos and wreath).
2003.97.0975.jpg	Right side view of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing two maenads (with thyrsos and wreath).
2003.97.0976.jpg	Right side view of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing two maenads (with thyrsos and wreath).
2003.97.0977.jpg	Top view of an Apulian squat lekythos, showing the reserved lip and part of the decoration on the body.
2003.97.0978.jpg	Bottom view of an Apulian squat lekythos, showing the reserved base.
2004.11.0014.jpg	Top view of the shoulder of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing a satyr and two maenads.
2004.11.0015.jpg	Top view of the shoulder of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing three maenads.
2004.11.0016.jpg	Right side view of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing two maenads.
2004.11.0017.jpg	Back view of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing two palmettes beneath the handle.
2004.99.0677.jpg	Oblique view of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing three maenads advancing.
2004.99.0678.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing two maenads advancing, profiles to the left.
2004.99.0679.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing one maenad advancing with profile to the right.
2004.99.0680.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing one youth advancing with profile to the right.
2004.99.0681.jpg	Front view of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing two palmettes beneath the handle.
2004.99.0682.jpg	Front view of part of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing one maenad advancing with profile to the left.
2004.99.0683.jpg	Front view of part of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing one maenad advancing with profile to the left.
2004.99.0684.jpg	Front view of part of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing one maenad advancing with profile to the right.
2004.99.0685.jpg	Front view of part of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing one youth advancing with profile to the right.
2004.99.0686.jpg	Top view of the top of an Apulian red-figure squat lekythos, showing exterior decoration and the mouth.