An Apulian Red-Figured Amphora

circa 330-300 b. c.e. the obverse with a youth standing beside his horse, clasping hands before him with a standing draped female, perhaps a goddess, all in added white within an Ionic naiskos with palmette akroteria, the youth nude but for a red chlamys fastened at his chest and a petasos, both falling behind, a spear in his left hand, his armor hanging to the right, the female with two spools of yarn in her lowered left hand, the podium with a band of meander, flanked by two offering bearers on either side, to the left above a nude youth seated on his cloak holding a spear and a shield, his pilos helmet behind his shoulders, a draped female below him stepping forward onto the podium of the naiskos, a fan and a situla in her hands, to the right above a seated draped female with a phiale and a patera in one hand, a parasol lowered in the other, a nude youth below stepping forward onto the podium, a filleted wreath in one hand, a basket with a cake in the other; a band of tongues on the shoulders, a female bust emerging from a blossom amidst elaborate scrolling above, a band of rosettes at the base of the neck, the neck with rays, tongues and palmettes above, ivy vine encircling the mouth; the reverse with a nude youth seated on his cloak within an Ionic naiskos with zigzag on the podium, a patera and his pilos helmet held before him, flanked by two offering bearers on either side, to the left above a seated nude youth with a filleted thyrsus and a wreath, below a draped female Read more…