Apulian Bell Krater

A: on the left, a youth with a white fillet around his head, nude except for a cloak over his right arm, running and stretching out his left arm toward a woman wearing a long sleeveless chiton with a black stripe down the side and swirling folds over her right leg. Running to right, she turns her head toward him and holds a wreath in her right hand and, in her left, a thyrsos, the stem of which is cut short by the scroll beneath the join of the handle. A window is in the field above to left.

B: on the left, a youth standing with a white fillet around his head, nude except for a cloak over his right arm, holding in his left hand a wreath, which is grasped by the right hand of a woman similar to the one on the obverse. She runs to right, but turns her head back to left and holds a thyrsos in her left hand. A disk is in the field above the figures, and a palmette scroll is between them.

Broken and repaired; chipped and flaked in some places, particularly on and below handles, at base of foot, and in interior of bowl, in which some gray incrustation remains. Red-brown wash on body. Flaring rim, upswung horizontal handles, below which body curves outward before tapering to comparatively tall stem; ring foot with reserved groove at top; reserved groove on top of foot and also around upper edge. Inside at junction of mouth and body: reserved band. Under rim: laurel wreath to left between reserved lines. Below handles: palmettes with side-scrolls, which serve to frame pictures. Around handle-roots: black tongues. Below pictures: meander pattern completely encircling vase and interrupted by three saltire squares on B only. Underside of foot: reserved.

After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).