Terracotta fragment of a situla (bucket)

Attributed as Sicilian

400–380 BCE

Not on view

Draped woman to right, wearing a peplos, nebris, and shoes, holding a tympanum in her left hand; bearded, frontal satyr, wearing white shoes, playing the aulos; draped woman seen from the back, wearing a peplos, with her hair tied back in a white band, wearing jewelry, holding a tray with cakes in her left hand, with a sash draped over her forearms and around her lower back; above the tray, a bird; below the picture, an egg pattern with dots in the interstices; benath the egg pattern, wave pattern with dots

Artwork Details

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Provenance

Title: Terracotta fragment of a situla (bucket)
Artist: Attributed as Sicilian [Martine Denoyelle]
Period: Classical
Date: 400–380 BCE
Culture: Greek, Sicilian
Medium: Terracotta; red-figure
Classification: Vases
Credit Line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011
Object Number: 2011.604.12.71
Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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