AN APULIAN COLUMN KRATER FROM THE LONG OVERFALLS GROUP

CLASSICAL THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

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AN APULIAN COLUMN KRATER FROM THE LONG OVERFALLS GROUP
Side A: a naked Seilenos holding a flaming torch in his right hand and a situla in his left, following a maenad dressed in a chiton who holds a large thrysos and offers a laiden phiale to a naked figure of Dionysos who sits on his folded cloak; on the rim a rare black-figure animal frieze of two lions confronting two boars and on the neck a band of swastikas between crossed squares
Side B: two youths wrapped in himations, one holding a staff, approaching another draped youth who holds up a strigil in his right hand; on the rim a double row of dots, the neck with black painted frieze of ivy leaf tendril with berries
Black tongues around the shoulder, rays around the horizontal rim and palmettes over the handles
circa 370 B.C.
15¾in. (40.1cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. A. D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, Vol. I, Oxford, 1978, p. 85, nos. 142-143, pl. 30.1 and pls. 28-29 for similar Dionysiac scenes from the Long Overfalls Group and p. 27, no. 120 for an earlier example of a black-figure animal frieze around the rim

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