MID-5TH CENTURY B.C.
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Another Attic red-figure Nolan amphora
Mid-5th Century B.C.
Side A: a standing woman in profile to the left, wearing a chiton and himation with multiple vertical folds, her hair bound in a sakkos, holding out a wreath over a flaming altar, a column behind her
Side B: a standing youth in profile to the left, wearing a fillet and closely wrapped in a long himation which he holds up to partially obscure his face
Both figures standing on meander groundlines, details in added purple, glossy black glaze, slightly metallic sheen
10½ in. (26.6 cm.) high
Mid-5th Century B.C.
Side A: a standing woman in profile to the left, wearing a chiton and himation with multiple vertical folds, her hair bound in a sakkos, holding out a wreath over a flaming altar, a column behind her
Side B: a standing youth in profile to the left, wearing a fillet and closely wrapped in a long himation which he holds up to partially obscure his face
Both figures standing on meander groundlines, details in added purple, glossy black glaze, slightly metallic sheen
10½ in. (26.6 cm.) high