An Apulian red-figure amphora Attributed to the Patera Painter, circa 340-320 B.C. The obverse depicting a peplos-clad female, her hair dressed in a sakkos and wearing earrings, necklace and bracelet, carrying a cista in her left hand and a tympanum in her right, striding to the left while pursued by Dionysus, carrying two thrysi and a situla, nude but for a mantle draped around his arm and sandals, a berried wreath in his hair, the reverse with two draped athletes standing beneath a pair of halteres (jumping-weights), one holding a strigil, the other with a staff, meander pattern beneath, palmettes below the handles, rays on the neck and around the base of the handles, a band of laurel leaves above, another on the mouth, details in added red, white and yellow, 47.5cm high
An Apulian red-figure amphora Attributed to the Patera Painter, circa 340-320 B.C. The obverse depicting a peplos-clad female, her hair dressed in a sakkos and wearing earrings, necklace and bracelet, carrying a cista in her left hand and a tympanum in her right, striding to the left while pursued by Dionysus, carrying two thrysi and a situla, nude but for a mantle draped around his arm and sandals, a berried wreath in his hair, the reverse with two draped athletes standing beneath a pair of halteres (jumping-weights), one holding a strigil, the other with a staff, meander pattern beneath, palmettes below the handles, rays on the neck and around the base of the handles, a band of laurel leaves above, another on the mouth, details in added red, white and yellow, 47.5cm high
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