Acquisition number: 1965.35
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Goat’s Head Rhyton. On the lip is an Eros seated left on a rock, a box in his right hand and a rosette suspended from his wrist. In the field in front of him is a sash and a boukranion. To either side by the handle, palmette designs.
Title: Goat’s Head Rhyton - 1965.35
Acquisition number: 1965.35
Attribution: Listed the piece among vases related to the Menzies Group and the workshops of the Patera, Ganymede and Baltimore Painters.
Culture or period: West Greek.
Date: Last third 4th century BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Rhyton
Dimensions: 123mm (w) × 215mm (h)
Origin region or location: Italy
Origin city: Altamura.
Display case or on loan: 8
Keywords: Apulian, Red Figure, Apulian Tomb Group, Eros, Menzies Painter, Patera Painter, Ganymede Painter, Baltimore Painter, Gela, Woite Collection
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 62; A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, ii (Oxford 1982) 854 no. 544.
1965.35
Goat’s Head Rhyton
Ht ca 21.5cm; diam. (lip) 12.3cm.
On the lip is an Eros seated left on a rock, a box in his right hand and a rosette suspended from his wrist. In the field in front of him is a sash and a boukranion. To either side by the handle, palmette designs.
The lower part of the vase is similar to that of 1965.34, in this catalogue.Trendall and Cambitoglou listed the piece among vases related to the Menzies Group and the workshops of the Patera, Ganymede and Baltimore Painters.
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 62; A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, ii (Oxford 1982) 854 no. 544.