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Description: | Red figure hydria (water jar) with a thick rimmed circular black base, leading into a decorated body and neck, with a roverhanging rim. It has two horizontal handles bent inwards attached on the body and a vertical handle from neck to shoulder, The decoration on the body depicts a centaur on one side (a bearded man, nude to the waist and the body of a horse), holding a wreath and a branch.. White overpainted details. The other side is decorated with a large fan-palmette, flanked by two smaller palmettes, interspersed with a scrolled design. The top of the body has painted vertical fluting. The neck is decorated with a scrolled design, and a frieze of egg-moulded. The handles are black and there is a vertical lined pattern repeated aroun the outside of the rim. Attributed to the Capua Silen Painter. | Subjects: | Europe Italy Southern Europe | Source: | Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.foreignarchaeology.80400 | Go to resource |
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