Apulian Red-Figure Lekanis with Lid
Lid: between palmette-fans with reserved lines beside them, two female heads in profile to left. Each wears a patterned hair-covering (kekryphalos), a wavy hair ribbon, a radiate stephane, a circular earring, and a double-strand necklace. Below each kekryphalos emerge three strands of wavy hair.
The domed lid has a downturned lip and a knobbed handle in two degrees on a short stem. The hub of the knob is recessed and decorated with a rosette. Around its join to the lid, a narrow reserved band. A reverse-wave pattern decorates the side of the lid. The bowl has an inset rim and a torus foot on a short stem, and is completely black.
One side of the bowl has a wide crack running through it from the base to outer edge on one half only. The gray-colored clay of body, including clay of broken handle, suggests that the vessel may have been exposed to fire. The lid retains its original tan color, but about half of the inside, which was reserved, is covered with a black, soot-like substance.
After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).
The domed lid has a downturned lip and a knobbed handle in two degrees on a short stem. The hub of the knob is recessed and decorated with a rosette. Around its join to the lid, a narrow reserved band. A reverse-wave pattern decorates the side of the lid. The bowl has an inset rim and a torus foot on a short stem, and is completely black.
One side of the bowl has a wide crack running through it from the base to outer edge on one half only. The gray-colored clay of body, including clay of broken handle, suggests that the vessel may have been exposed to fire. The lid retains its original tan color, but about half of the inside, which was reserved, is covered with a black, soot-like substance.
After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).
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