Acquisition number: 1965.32
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Bull-Horn Rhyton.
Intact but much of the added colour has worn away. The edge of the lip is grooved; ring handle with concave outer face.
The decoration of the vase is divided into zones. At the level of the handle is an Eros seated left on some drapery. He holds a mirror in his right hand. In the field before him is a sash. To either side by the handle are palmette designs. Next is a zone of ivy, then rosettes, then a scroll-pattern, then rosettes; the tip has a tongue pattern. The inside of the vase is black.
Title: Bull-Horn Rhyton - 1965.32
Acquisition number: 1965.32
Attribution: Associated with the workshops of the Darius and Underworld Painters.
Culture or period: West Greek.
Date: c. 340 - 330 BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Rhyton
Dimensions: 270mm (l) × 109mm (w)
Origin region or location: Italy
Origin city: Altamura.
Display case or on loan: 8
Keywords: Apulian, Red Figure, Apulian Tomb Group, Eros, Darius Painter, Underworld Painter
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 60-1; A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, ii (Oxford 1982) 619 no. 121.
1965.32
Bull-Horn Rhyton
Length ca 27cm; diam. (lip) 10.9cm.
Intact but much of the added colour has worn away. The edge of the lip is grooved; ring handle with concave outer face.
The decoration of the vase is divided into zones. At the level of the handle is an Eros seated left on some drapery. He holds a mirror in his right hand. In the field before him is a sash. To either side by the handle are palmette designs. Next is a zone of ivy, then rosettes, then a scroll-pattern, then rosettes; the tip has a tongue pattern. The inside of the vase is black.
Compare H. Hoffmann, Tarentine Rhyta (Mainz 1966) 84-85 and pll. 48-49. Ours differs from the other examples listed by Hoffmann in its modelled rather than simple lip, and in the fact that the decoration is carried all the way down the horn. To be associated with the workshops of the Darius and Underworld Painters; probably about 340-330 BC.
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 60-1; A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, ii (Oxford 1982) 619 no. 121.
Australian National University.