Apulian Red-Figure Pelike

The vessel is intact with some cracking of the glaze on the lip and around the joins of the handles. Some incrustation occurs around the vessel. The broad mouth has a torus lip and the foot is a disk foot in two degrees. On the neck, between the handles, is a laurel wreath to the left between reserved lines. Below the figural scenes is a meander between narrow reserved lines-on the reverse, the lower part of the pattern is obscured by a thin application of glaze. On one side of the vase, a youth offers two eggs to a woman. She stands on the left and wears a sleeveless chiton girt at the waist, and with her left hand plucks at a fold of drapery at her shoulder. She also wears a white leafy wreath, a necklace, and, on each wrist, a triple-coil bracelet. In her right hand she holds a fillet decorated with black dots. The youth is nude but wears a chaplet around his head, a cloak behind him and over both arms, and shoes. He holds out two white eggs in the palm of his right hand, and his left hand, enveloped in drapery, holds a stick. Between the figure is a closed chest; across its center is a black band with white chevrons. Side B depicts two draped youths facing each other. They are completely enveloped in their black-bordered himatia, which project slightly in front below their necks. In the upper field, between their faces, is an object as yet unidentified.