Apulian Red-Figure Bell Krater

A: in the center, a nude, youthful Dionysos seated three-quarters left on black-bordered drapery that is looped over his left arm. Around his head is a fillet in added white decorated with black dots. He holds a white narthex in his left hand and a white kantharos in his right, which is extended before him. A duck stands on the ground line below him. In front of him stands maenad draped in a long sleeveless chiton belted at the waist. With her right hand, she plucks at the drapery over her right thigh and, with her left, is about to pour from an oinochoe into the kantharos held by Dionysos. On the right stands a nude, bearded satyr with a fillet in added white around his head; he holds a white situla in his right hand, and in his left, a thyrsos, the top which is indicated by wavy black and white (mostly disappeared) lines on a reserved background.

B, three draped youths. Each wears a black-bordered himation draped so as to envelop the left arm and leaves the right shoulder and arm exposed. The bodies of the first two youths are shown in almost frontal view, with their heads turned to right; the third is in profile to left. The right arm of the first youth is akimbo; those of the other two youths hold sticks.

The krater, reconstructed from fragments, has a flaring rim, upswung horizontal handles, and a slightly convex body; short stem, ring foot with reserved groove at top; reserved band on lower edge of foot; reserved stripe where stem meets foot. Under rim: laurel wreath to right between reserved lines Below each picture: meanders in groups of three interrupted by saltire squares. No decoration at roots of handles, but the area between them, reserved.

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