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Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles)

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Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles)

Attributed to the Painter of Bari 5981

Period:: Late Classical
Date:: ca. 325–300 B.C.
Culture:: Greek, South Italian, Apulian
Medium:: Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:: H. with handles 11 in. (27.9 cm)
Classification:: Vases
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1906
Accession Number:: 06.1021.233

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 171

Description

Obverse, woman with kalathos (wool basket)
Reverse, head of a woman

This kantharos belongs to the contents of two tombs found in Canosa in 1895. Other pieces from the ensemble are exhibited in the Levy Sculpture Court, case 8.
Provenance

Found in tomb A of the Schocherra Hypogeum, Canosa, in 1895
See also
Who
Bari 5981 (1)
What
Clay (23,649)

Vessels (21,921)

Vases (8,895)

Terracotta (8,373)

Drinking vessels (6,032)

Kantharoi (58)
Where
Europe (148,586)

Greece (6,287)
When
1000 B.C.-A.D. 1 (23,148)
In the Museum
Greek and Roman Art (17,329)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.

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