Apulian Red-Figure Amphora

A: woman and youth at grave stele. The woman, wearing a long sleeveless chiton girt at the waist, is seated to left on a rock pile, but turns her head to right. In her right hand she holds a phiale with fillet and ivy leaf, and in her left, a bunch of grapes. The youth, nude except for a cloak over his left arm, bends forward over his raised right leg, the foot resting on a ground line of dots. He holds a bucket (situla) with added white decoration in his right hand, and a white knotty stick in his left, which is covered by the drapery. The base of the stele is decorated with a white scroll pattern between bands of white; the shaft, around which is tied a black fillet with a white one looped through it, has a white pediment and akroteria. A white fillet appears in the field above on either side of the stele.

B: two draped youths facing each other; the one on the right holds a staff in his right hand; above, between them, a pair of halteres.

Broken and reconstructed from fragments. Wide mouth with flaring rim; narrow neck curving slightly outward to shoulder; thick strap handles; ovoid body tapering downward to reserved stem; ring foot in black glaze with reserved inset at top and partly reserved lower edge.

A and B, on side of mouth: white berried laurel wreath to right. Neck: black palmette-fan flanked by single scroll leaves; raised black band and black zigzag on reserved band below. Shoulder: tongues separated by black lines ending in black dots. Below pictures, all around vase: meanders interspersed with dotted and quartered squares. Below handles: large palmette-fan flanked by side-scrolls.

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