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Description: | Bell krater. Decoration: side 1: lady in profile facing left, side 2 : lady in profile facing left, between them a floral pattern.
Condition - part of rim missing, repairs on rim and handle., A bell krater used either as a mixing vessel for wine and water or, as was one of the customs in the Greek settlements, to be used as a container for ashes in a burial. This example has a black body and interior. The rim has been damaged at some point in the past and has been glued back together, leaving a single chip missing from the rim and several small chips from the individual sherds. The underside of the rim is decorated with alternate horizontal black and tan stripes. Below on each side, the head of a woman facing left with a stephane (diadem), sakkos (hat) decorated with lines and dots in brown and light tan and all caught up in a kekryphalos ( a large bunch of hair emerging at the back), drop earings and a necklace in light tan. The heads are flanked on either side by framing florals. Between them and under each pair of upwardly turned loop handles is a palmette with a dot at its base. Below this a right facing band of wave patterning. The remainder of the vessel is plain black to the base with incised ribs on the pedestal. The interior of the is unpainted. The style of the artwork on this piece suggests that it may have been made in the Campanian region of Apulia.,
Accession number: NCM 1921-11 | Subjects: | GREEK food and drink? objects of indeterminate use (containers) ceramics APULIAN | Temporal: | 399BC-200BC | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | ITALY? | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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