Acquisition number: 1965.25
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Mug (type N).
Double handle in the form of a Herculean knot and parting at the junction with the lip. The foot is offset from the lower wall and the resting surface and the underside of the floor are elaborately moulded and decorated, following the mouldings, with three broad circles. There is a wash inside the vase.
On the body is a woman leaning on a pillar before a seated Eros. She holds an alabastron in her right hand and a chain of flowers in her left. The Eros sits on a rock and holds up a wreath in his right hand. There is a palmette design about the handle. At the top of the wall, egg and dot; on the lower wall, wave pattern. The lip has a tongue pattern on both the upper and lower faces.
Title: Mug (type N) - 1965.25
Acquisition number: 1965.25
Attribution: Menzies Painter.
Culture or period: West Greek.
Date: c. 340 - 320 BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels - Cup/mug
Dimensions: 81mm (w) × 97mm (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) 57; A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, ii (Oxford 1982) 827 no. 100, pl. 312, 3.
1965.25
Mug (type N)
Ht 9.7cm; diam. 8.1cm.
Double handle in the form of a Herculean knot and parting at the junction with the lip. The foot is offset from the lower wall and the resting surface and the underside of the floor are elaborately moulded and decorated, following the mouldings, with three broad circles. There is a wash inside the vase.
On the body is a woman leaning on a pillar before a seated Eros. She holds an alabastron in her right hand and a chain of flowers in her left. The Eros sits on a rock and holds up a wreath in his right hand. There is a palmette design about the handle. At the top of the wall, egg and dot; on the lower wall, wave pattern. The lip has a tongue pattern on both the upper and lower faces.
This type of mug is much the same as the Attic type A which was common both in red-figure and black-glaze in the early fifth century. The Apulian version is much more dainty. It was particularly popular both in red-figure and Gnathia in the period ca 340-320 BC. Compare the slightly simpler 1965.26 and contrast the shape of 1965.24, both in this catalogue.
By the Menzies Painter.
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 57; A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, ii (Oxford 1982) 827 no. 100, pl. 312, 3.
Australian National University.