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ITALY, Sicily, THE LENTINI PAINTER (associated with)
Neck amphora (Sicilian red-figure ware)
 350 BCE-340 BCE

Medium
earthenware

Measurements
41.9 × 19.7 × 19.1 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1966
© Public Domain

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Sicily, Italy

Inscription
none

Accession Number
1342-D5

Department
Antiquities

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited

Physical description
Tall, slender, necked amphora, with elongated ovoid body, pedestal foot and two handles from below the rim to the shoulder on either side. Decorated in black-glaze and red-figure. On the neck of Side A and B is a woman's head, in profile to the left, flanked by tendrils. Side A body: a seated youth between two women wearing diadems and clutons. Side B: Two nude women either side of a louterion (wash basin on pedestal). They wear only a ribbon around the thigh and a thin bandoher across the body.

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