Terracotta fragment of a situla (bucket)

Sicilian

400–380 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Draped woman to right, wearing a peplos, nebris, and shoes, holding a tympanum in her left hand; bearded, frontal satyr, wearing white shoes, playing the aulos; draped woman seen from the back, wearing a peplos, with her hair tied back in a white band, wearing jewelry, holding a tray with cakes in her left hand, with a sash draped over her forearms and around her lower back; above the tray, a bird; below the picture, an egg pattern with dots in the interstices; benath the egg pattern, wave pattern with dots

Artist

Sicilian

Date

400–380 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Sicilian

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011