An Apulian Red-figured Column Krater, circa 350-330 B.C.

decorated in front with a woman holding a thyrsus and box, and an Oscan youth holding a situla and thyrsus, both moving to left, and on the reverse with two confronted draped youths on either side of a hanging fillet, each holding a staff, a panel of flowering vine on each side of the neck, a wave pattern on top of the rim.

acquired in the 1970s

repaired from several fragments with minor restoration and inpainting in and around breaklines, some small areas of restoration above foot, on handle plates, and on adjacent areas of rim on one side, several areas of black glaze painted over including in figural panels (e.g. to left of woman, obscuring lower part of thyrsus)
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