Pelike
MS3120
Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery
From: Italy | Etruria | Civita Castellana
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS3120 |
| Current Location | Greece Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Attic |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Civita Castellana |
| Manufacture Location | Attica |
| Locus | Tomba a camera a Falerii | Falerii Chamber Tomb |
| Period | Classical Greek Period |
| Date Made | 460-440 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Red Figure |
| Description | Intact. Where body clay is not covered by glaze it has erroded. On A&B a border of chevrons below and of egg pattern above. A) 2 women standing. Woman at left holds vertical staff in outstretched hand, faces right. Woman at right faces left, hands widely outstretched. B) A fully draped woman, standing, holding a vertical thyrsus (?) in her outstretched hand, facing left. |
| Height | 22.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 17 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti; subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898 |
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