A CAMPANIAN RED-FIGURE POTTERY BAIL AMPHORA, the body with a partly draped seated female figure, wearing sakkos around her hair, reaching out with her right hand to the palmette, the reverse with a standing youth wearing a wreath on his head, wrapped in his himation, large palmettes between the two figures, band of vitruvian scroll above the foot and another at base of neck, the reserved neck with stylized black palmettes -- 13in. (33.1cm.) high, late 4th Century B.C.

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A CAMPANIAN RED-FIGURE POTTERY BAIL AMPHORA, the body with a partly draped seated female figure, wearing sakkos around her hair, reaching out with her right hand to the palmette, the reverse with a standing youth wearing a wreath on his head, wrapped in his himation, large palmettes between the two figures, band of vitruvian scroll above the foot and another at base of neck, the reserved neck with stylized black palmettes -- 13in. (33.1cm.) high, late 4th Century B.C.

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