Apulian Bell Krater

A: woman moving right toward an altar. Her body is shown frontally, but she turns her head to left; she holds a box (cista) in her right hand and a beaded wreath in her left. Below, to left, is a palmette motif enhanced by white dots; above, a rosette to left and a disk to right.

B: head of a woman in profile to left, flanked by two simple palmette-scrolls. She wears a hair-covering (kekryphalos), and, in added white, a stephane, an earring, and a necklace. In the field, top left, is a rosette.

Reconstructed from fragments; complete except for some chips missing on both inside and outside at join of left handle to body. Some tan and brown incrustation remains on inside of body and on underside of foot, which is reserved. Flaring rim, upswung horizontal handles, partly reserved on inside and between roots; slightly convex curve to body before it tapers to join the stem, where there is a narrow reserved band; ring foot with reserved groove at top; reserved band at lower edge. Interior of mouth: two reserved stripes. Under rim: continuous band of black chevrons on reserved background. Below pictures: black wave on reserved band; on B, it is marred by a splotch of glaze.

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