Acquisition number: 1965.27
Other images
Lebes Gamikos.
The lid is missing but the piece is otherwise intact. High knobbed handles. The shoulder is somewhat depressed.
A: An Eros seated left on a rock with a dish in his right hand. In the field is a rosette and a sash with added white decoration, now worn.
B: A woman seated left on a rock with a tambourine in her right hand and a wreath in her left. In the field are rosettes and ivy-leaves. Note that the painter omitted to black in the triangular area between the tambourine and the woman’s face.
There are tongues on the handle roots and a tongue pattern on the shoulder. There are palmette designs below the handles. Below the scenes and running round the vase, wave pattern. Reserved are the stem between body and foot, a band on the upper face of the foot and the underside. There is no wash inside the vase.
Title: Lebes Gamikos - 1965.27
Acquisition number: 1965.27
Attribution: Menzies Painter.
Culture or period: West Greek.
Date: c. 340 - 320 BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels
Dimensions: 116mm (w) × 132mm (h)
Origin region or location: Italy
Origin city: Altamura.
Display case or on loan: 8
Keywords: Apulian, Red Figure, Apulian Tomb Group, Menzies Painter, Eros
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 58; A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, ii (Oxford 1982) 827 no. 104, pl. 312, 5; H. Cassimatis, Le lébès à anses dressées italiote (Cahiers du Centre Jean Bérard, XV, Naples 1993) 192 no. A116.
1965.27
Lebes Gamikos
Ht (lip) 13.2cm; diam. 11.6cm.
The lid is missing but the piece is otherwise intact. High knobbed handles. The shoulder is somewhat depressed.
A: An Eros seated left on a rock with a dish in his right hand. In the field is a rosette and a sash with added white decoration, now worn.
B: A woman seated left on a rock with a tambourine in her right hand and a wreath in her left. In the field are rosettes and ivy-leaves. Note that the painter omitted to black in the triangular area between the tambourine and the woman’s face.
There are tongues on the handle roots and a tongue pattern on the shoulder. There are palmette designs below the handles. Below the scenes and running round the vase, wave pattern. Reserved are the stem between body and foot, a band on the upper face of the foot and the underside. There is no wash inside the vase.
By the Menzies Painter.
For a thorough discussion of the shape as it appears in the various South Italian fabrics and of the range of subjects of their decoration, see the study by Cassimatis (below).
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 58; A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, ii (Oxford 1982) 827 no. 104, pl. 312, 5; H. Cassimatis, Le lébès à anses dressées italiote (Cahiers du Centre Jean Bérard, XV, Naples 1993) 192 no. A116.