Jar

Item number M1.73 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Apulian hydria. Red fine-grained body, dark brown wash; light brown, dark brown, brown/black, yellow, and white paint. Pedestal base. Flat foot; ovoid body with sloping shoulder and two horizontal handles; chimney neck with large everted rim, one vertical handle, neck to rim. Decoration: tongue pattern, lip and handles; palmette and laurel wreath with white berries. Main scene depicts bringing offerings to the tomb; draped female figures, holding a tambourine and a situla (basket), respectively, are shown on either side of a broad funerary stelae. Cracks cover body of jar as it has been reconstructed from fragments.