Attic Black-Figure Stamnos

On the shoulders, A and B: on the left, woman reclining to left, looking to right. She has a red fillet in her hair, an incised line on her neck presumably indicates a necklace, and she wears a himation over a long chiton (on B, a cloak hangs in the field behind the woman). Next to her a man reclines to left, looking to right. He has fillet in his hair and is garbed in a himation worn below the waist. Three loaves or cakes are beside each woman and four next to each man.

On the body, A and B, each: on the left, woman seated to right, resting on a pillow and gesturing toward the man seated opposite her. On B, the woman holds a kantharos (handle above the rim missing) in her left hand. The men gesture with their right hands and hold vessels in their left: on A, a rhyton, and on B, a cup-skyphos held by the foot. Each woman wears a necklace and is clothed in a long chiton. The men are clothed in himatia worn below the waist. The woman on side A and possibly also the man on B wear turban headgear, presumably mitra. Beside the symposiasts are two loaves or cakes. In the field between the figures: on A, a cradle-kithara, and on B, a cloak.

The stamnos has a torus mouth, with a red line on the inner edge; inside of neck and body glazed. The short neck has a slight ridge, painted red, at join of neck and shoulder. Two horizontal handles, completely glazed. Each panel is divided by a glaze line into two registers: a smaller one on the shoulder and a larger one on the body. Single glaze lines frame the panel on the left and right, and on the lower border. Below the panels, a pair of red lines. No foot; red line on the edge, underside reserved. Dipinto on the slightly concave underside of base "S O".

After Clark, A., CVA Malibu 1 (1988).