Two-handled vessel (nestoris)

A: An Oscan warrior is seated on a rock at left with a pair of spears held upright in his left hand and a shield resting against his left knee. He is wearing a striped tunic, a himation, and a tall, pointed cap of spotted skin, with long flaps by the ears. With his right hand, the warrior reaches for his sword, which is proffered by a woman wearing a chiton, himation, and sphendone. The shield has a star device. Growing at the far right is a spindly tree. B: A maenad wearing a belted chiton and sphendone runs to the left, her cloak in the raised right hand and a thyrsos in the lowered left. She looks back toward an entreating, ithyphallic satyr, who prances after her, his arms outstretched and his right leg raised. There are laurel wreaths around the inner and outer rim. On the outer face of each vertical handle are four superimposed rows of chevrons above a single band of egg-pattern. The pictures have lateral frames of narrow reserved lines and upper frames of tongues. A single groundline of linked maeanders to right circles the lower body. For red-figure nestorides, see K. Schauenburg, Jdl 89 (1974), pp. 137-186; and G. Schneider-Herrmann, "Red-figured Lucanian and Apulian Nestorides and their Ancestors" (Amsterdam, 1980), pp. 31-33 (text fig. 1, 1), 46, 49,59, 69, figs. 43, 43 a-b. For the rapid evolution of the shape, compare two later nestorides by the Amykos Painter: Richmond 81.71 (Trendall, LCS, Suppl. III, p. 15, no. 188a. pl. 2, 2-4 and Geddes Collection, Melbourne (LCS, Suppl. III, p. 390, no. 188b). (text from Vase-Painting In Italy, catalogue entry no. 4)