Column Krater

L-64-230

From: Italy | Apulia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number L-64-230
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Apulian | South Italian
Provenience Italy | Apulia
Manufacture Location South Italy
Date Made 399-300 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Red Figure
Iconography Woman | Youth | Athletics | Wreath | Staff | Wheat | Chest
Description

Scroll pattern on top of rim; palmettes on rim at top of handles; ivy pattern on neck. Woman and youth, both running toward left. Woman at left, fully dressed, holds tall stalk (wheat?) in right hand, a chest in her left hand which is outstretched toward the youth. Youth is nude, carrying a garment suspended behind his back from forearms. In his right hand a wreath; with his leftm hand, he holds up a large phiale(?). He wears a wreath. B. Two draped youths facing each other, each holding in his outstreached hand a vertical staff. A meta(?) behind the left-hand youth. Intact.

Height 43.5 cm
Outside Diameter 31.5 cm
Other Number 1902-879 - Philadelphia Museum of Art Number

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