NEAR THE GRAZ PAINTER, CIRCA 380-360 B.C.

On the obverse a draped woman wearing a peplos and holding a phiale and wreath, stands before a nude youth seated on a block, its plinth with a Greek inscription, TERMON. On the reverse two draped youths, one with a staff, stand adjacent to a pillar similarly inscribed TERMON. Inscriptions on Apulian vases are comparatively rare. As A.D. Trendall notes (p. 77 in Red Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily) TERMON probably signifies a boundary-post or finishing line in the palestra. For a related vase, perhaps a companion piece, in a California private collection with the same inscription, see A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, op. cit., no. 217c.