Vases Red-figure Pelike Apulian Red-Figure Pelike Fragment
Apulian Red-Figure Pelike Fragment

Apulian Red-Figure Pelike Fragment

Red-figure Suckling - Salting Group · Pelike · about 350 B.C.
Youth to right preserved from the waist up holding a seven-stringed kithara, and a seated woman (lower legs missing) holding two reeds of an aulos. The youth wears a white wreath and has his himation draped over his left arm. A stick in added white is propped against his body. The woman wears a short-sleeved chiton, and sits upon a crossbar stool (meander pattern along top edge). She wears a white, radiate stephane, a hairband with white dots and edge, a white ribbon at the back of her hair, necklace, earrings and bracelets. Above the youth's head appear to be two human feet, perhaps from an Eros(?). Interior, undecorated.
Shape
Technique
Date
about 350 B.C.
Culture
Greek (South Italian, Apulian)
Dimensions
H: 11.80 cm W: 14.10 cm
Museum
J. Paul Getty Museum
Accession Number
86.AE.404
Image Source
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