Apulian Amphora

A: head of a woman in profile to left, wearing a hair-covering (kekryphalos) decorated with white and black stripes and a row of black strokes at the top, where a bunch of hair emerges, tied with a white ribbon. She also wears a white radiate stephane, a pendant earring, and a necklace with one strand of white beads and another of black. In the field above on either side, white bucrania; below, single white scroll.

B, as on A, except that the earring is circular and the necklace is a double strand in white. In the field above, on either side, an ivy leaf.

Broken and repaired at neck and handles, on which there is some abrasion of the black glaze. The vase has a pierced foot. Wide mouth, curving downward to narrow neck; strap handles; ovoid body tapering to reserved stem; black-glazed ring foot.

A and B, on side of mouth: white laurel wreath to left. Neck: black palmette-fan above a black band in relief; below: A, black wave on a reserved band; B, black dots on reserved band. Shoulder: A, tongues on reserved background, band of white outward-curving leaves on black background; B, tongues with black dots between them at the bottom, going down to top of figured scene. Below pictures around vase: black wave on reserved background between two black stripes. Below handles: single large white-cored palmette with side-scrolls and fans.

After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).