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ANOTHER APULIAN VOLUTE KRATER,
Side A: showing a naiskos within which sits a woman holding out a patera in her right hand, two fillets hang in the field flanking the naiskos, the neck panel with the head of a woman in profile to the left, her hair bound in a sakkos and wearing jewellery, emerging from elaborate scrolling tendrils and foliage, a band of rosettes above
Side B: showing a head of a woman in profile to the left, wearing a sakkos, a fillet and two rosettes in the field, the neck panel with palmette
large palmettes under the handles, the body with bands of broken meander interrupted with a single crossed rectangle, tongues, chevrons and scrolls, the disc handles with moulded Medusa heads on either side, four swans' heads on the shoulder, details in added purple, white and yellow, repaired at rim, second half of 4th Century B.C.
18in. (45.7cm.) high
Side A: showing a naiskos within which sits a woman holding out a patera in her right hand, two fillets hang in the field flanking the naiskos, the neck panel with the head of a woman in profile to the left, her hair bound in a sakkos and wearing jewellery, emerging from elaborate scrolling tendrils and foliage, a band of rosettes above
Side B: showing a head of a woman in profile to the left, wearing a sakkos, a fillet and two rosettes in the field, the neck panel with palmette
large palmettes under the handles, the body with bands of broken meander interrupted with a single crossed rectangle, tongues, chevrons and scrolls, the disc handles with moulded Medusa heads on either side, four swans' heads on the shoulder, details in added purple, white and yellow, repaired at rim, second half of 4th Century B.C.
18in. (45.7cm.) high