Apulian Red-Figure Bell Krater

A: woman, wearing a long sleeveless chiton, hair covering (kekryphalos), and jewelry, running to left, turning her head to look back at a youth and a satyr who follow her. She carries a mirror in her right hand and a box (cista) with two sprays extending from it in her left. The youth is nude except for a wreath around his head and a cloak over his left arm. He carries a figured bucket (situla) in his right hand, a knotty staff in his left. The satyr wears a wreath. In his right hand he carries a flaming torch tied with a fillet; in his left hand is a thyrsos. All three figures are on a ground line of dots from which spring a flowering plant and a berried spray. In the field to left are two rosettes; above the cista is a bucranium; to the left of the torch, an ivy leaf; in the right field, a rosette.

B: three draped youths with sticks. In the upper field between the first two is a pair of jumping weights (halteres); between the second and third, a diptych with stylus.
Reconstructed from fragments, with a few pieces missing near junction of foot and body; large fragment missing from foot; some nicks and scratches. Black glaze abraded on upper areas of reverse. Brownish pink overall wash.

Flaring rim, upswung horizontal handles; body curving inward to tall stem; foot with reserved groove at upper edge and reserved band on lower edge. Inside, just above junction of mouth and body: broad reserved band; a narrow one around top edge of rim. Under rim: laurel wreath to left between reserved bands, but partially obliterated in areas above handles by black glaze. Below handles: double superposed palmette with side scrolls. Around handle-roots: black tongues; between, but slightly above handles: triangular reserved area. Around body beneath pictures: meander pattern broken by quartered and dotted squares.

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