Column Krater
L-64-42
Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery
From: Italy
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | L-64-42 |
Current Location | Greece Gallery - On Display |
Culture | Apulian | South Italian |
Provenience | Italy |
Manufacture Location | Apulia |
Date Made | 399-300 BCE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Technique | Red Figure |
Iconography | Sacrificial Scene | Altar | Spear | Armor | Shield | Oinochoe | Sheep | Woman | Tray |
Description | A. Sacrificial scene. Left to right: (1) upright pair of spears, points up, with oval shield leaning against them; (2) bearded man facing right wearing pointed cap and shirt to hips holding out a knife in right hand and holding an oinochoe tilted over a well-head (?) in left; (3) to right of well-head a man wearing a high cap and a hip length shirt, facing left holds a sheep, its head and neck over the well-head; (4) at extreme right a woman facing left, fully dressed, holds out a filled tray. B. Three youths, all standing, each with a vertical stick. The two outer ones face in and the middle one faces left. On neck: large ivy tendrils. |
Height | 44.5 cm |
Width | 43.6 cm |
Other Number | 82-125 - Philadelphia Museum of Art Number |
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