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A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Oinochoe (Pitcher)

end of 4th century BCE

Attributed to the Mattinata Painter Greek; Apulia, Italy

Greece

This vase depicts a woman wearing a chiton, a himation and a white sakkos (hat) sitting on an elaborate four-tier rock, holding a phiale (dish) out in her right hand and a large bunch of grapes back in her left. By her legs is a large and elaborate tambourine; to the far right is an elaborate sprouting floral.

terracotta, red-figure

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium