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English: Dijon Painter
Français : Peintre de Dijon
Description
English: Woman and a youth. Apulian red-figured pelike, ca. 370 BC. This side : Female figure seated on a rock to right, with hair gathered in an opisthosphendone radiated in front, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with a stripe down the side, and sandals, in left hand a mirror. Confronting her is a youth leaning forward with right foot raised on a rock; he wears a fillet, and himation in which left hand is muffled, and holds a wreath in right hand. Between them is a tendril; above, an embroidered taenia in festoon.
Français : Jeune femme et jeune homme. Pélikè apulien à figures rouges, vers 370 av. J.-C. Jeune femme assise sur un rocher à droite, les cheveux réunis dans une opisthosphendone rayonnante, portant boucles d'oreilles, collier, bracelets, et un long chiton serré à la taille par une bande qui tombe sur le côté. Elle porte des sandales, et tient un miroir de la main gauche. En face d'elle se tient un jeune homme nu, penché en avant, le pied droit sur un rocher. Un bandeau lui serre les cheveux, et son himation est retenu autour de son bras gauche. Il tient une couronne (?) dans la main droite. Entre eux se déploie une grande volute. Suspendu au dessus d'eux, un tissus brodé d'une guirlande.
Date c. 380 - 360 BCE
Dimensions H. 27.4 cm.
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Upper floor, room 73, The Greeks in Southern Italy
Accession number
1824,0501.27 (Cat. Vases F 316)
Credit line Bequeathed by R. Payne Knight
Source/Photographer Jastrow (2006)

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