Apulian Red-Figure Epichysis

This jug with a beaked spout has a strap handle, sharply angled at the top; a modeled lip, with a ridge at its inner edge; handle attachments (plastic animal heads) on either side of the spout; a downward-curving shoulder, and a flanged body.

Shoulder: nude Eros sitting on a dotted white and white-stripe ground line, with his legs outstretched. He wears a hair covering (kekryphalos), a single-strand necklace, a bandolier, a four-coil bracelet on his left leg, and shoes. Most of the white detail on his wings has disappeared. He holds in his right hand a phiale containing four eggs. In the field in front of him is a fillet. Behind his left hand, which rests on the ground line, is a reserved phiale.

A reserved band marks the join of the vessel’s body to its lower flange. Underside of foot: reserved. Base of neck: black tongues. Base of handle: palmette-fan and, on either side of the join, a scroll with palmette leaves and white dots. Top side of flange at shoulder: wave. Around the body: continuous ivy pattern with white leaves and incised stem.

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