Panathenaic amphora with two ephebes and a young girl holding tympanon

Unknown (Apulian)

Item type:

vessel

Date of creation:

ca. 350 BCE

Technique / Medium:

red figure painting

School:

Apulian Style

Description

Side A: A youth, sitting on a rocky rise, offers a dove to a young girl who holds out a crown to him; behind, a naked ephebe with curly hair.
Side B: A young girl with hair falling on her shoulder and a tympanon in hand, followed by a youth bearing a branch, approaches a naked ephebe standing on the top of a slope, also with a branch in his hand.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tympanon [3705]

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

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.

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.

RIdIM record id

3013