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Apulian Red-Figure Calyx Krater Fragment

Underworld Painterabout 330 B.C.

The J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States

Composed of three joined fragments, from the middle of a calyx krater. Supplication scene involving a seated male figure with four others.
Above, sandaled feet and drapery of a figure facing left. To right, lower part of a shield (interior view) and a female figure who sits to the right. She wears a chiton and himation, and has a sceptre (Athena?). Below, at left, bearded male sitting with sceptre (Zeus or a king?). He looks towards an anxious-faced youth who holds a berried laurel branch draped with white beads. To right, a bucranion and the head of a second youth wearing a petasos (Hermes?). At the very right edge of the fragment, white arc with small white circles on the outside and petals of a rosette.
Interior, black.

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  • Title: Apulian Red-Figure Calyx Krater Fragment
  • Creator: Underworld Painter
  • Date Created: about 330 B.C.
  • Location Created: Apulia, South Italy
  • Physical Dimensions: 8.6 × 21.4 cm (3 3/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
  • Type: Krater
  • External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
  • Medium: Terracotta
  • Terms of Use: Open Content
  • Number: 86.AE.413
  • Culture: South Italian (Apulian)
  • Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
  • Creator Display Name: Underworld Painter (Greek (Apulian), active about 340 - 310 B.C.)
  • Classification: Vessels (Containers)
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