Bell krater with a young girl holding tympanon

Unknown (Apulian)

Item type:

vessel

Date of creation:

ca. 375-350 BCE

Technique / Medium:

red figure painting

Place of creation:

Apulia (Italia)

Description

Side A: Bare-chested youth, lying down and leaning on a cushion, holding a thyrsus in the left hand and a phiale in the right.
Side B: Young girl running toward a semi-column, her hair held in place with a sphendone and a tympanon in her right hand.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tympanon [3705]

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

Santarelli, Cristina. "The collections of Greek and Italiot pottery of the Museo di Antichità, Turin", Music in Art 30/1-2 (2005) 244-254. RILM 2005-7129.

Santarelli, Cristina. "Iconografia musicale nella ceramica greca e italiota del Museo di Antichità di Torino", Miscellanea di studi 5, ed. by Alberto Basso (Torino: Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte, 2003) 7-40.

Notes

Proto-Apulian Style

RIdIM record id

3012