1965.2l

Oinochoe (shape 1)

Ht incl. handle 27.4cm; ht (lip) 22.9cm; diam. 10cm.

The potterwork and subsidiary decoration are the same as 1965.20 and the same moulds were used for the appliqué heads.

On the body is an Eros seated between two standing women. The woman on the left leans on a pillar like that on 1965.19 and with her left hand holds a cord which is tied to the legs of a bird. The Eros is seated to right but looks back left. He holds a mirror in his left hand. The other woman holds an alabastron in her right hand and a wreath in her left. In the field in front of her, a sash. The white on the alabastron and the mirror has worn away.

Compare 1965.19. By the Menzies Painter.

J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 52-53; A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, ii (Oxford 1982) 827 no. 90, pl. 311, 3; Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae  iii (1986) s.v. Eros, no. 574b.