Terracotta lekanis (dish)
Baltimore Painter
ca. 325–300 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art
Frontal head of a woman Female heads decorate vases of many shapes. They are particularly suited to a circular format, as evidenced also by the heads of goddesses, nymphs, and other mythological ladies on the coinage of South Italian and Sicilian cities such as Metapontum, Thurii, Terina, and Syracuse.
- Artist
- Baltimore Painter
- Date
- ca. 325–300 BCE
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek, South Italian, Apulian
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1906
