Terracotta pelike (jar)
Underworld Painter
ca. 330–310 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art
Obverse, naiskos (shrine) with woman and attendant between youth and woman Reverse, woman, youth, and Eros A: naiskos with a statuary group of a maid placing a stool for her deceased mistress who holds a fan; outside to the left, a nude youth with a branch. To the right, a woman. B: a woman with a situla and a branch follows a youth holding a phiale and a branch. Eros sits above.
- Artist
- Underworld Painter
- Date
- ca. 330–310 BCE
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek, South Italian, Apulian
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1906
