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Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Youth Playing a Lyre

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Side A: In the center a youth wrapped in a mantle, seated to right on a square object holding in his left a lyre the strings of which are now missing but were originallly applied in white as shown by a few traces. Facing him a bearded man to left entirely wrapped in his mantle and leaning on a staff. At the left a second youth clad in a cloak which leaves his right arm and shoulder bare, holding a staff in his right. In the field a pair of halteres, a sponge and a strigil. Side B: Bearded man with staff and youth facing each other, both entirely wrapped in their cloaks. In the field a sponge. Hair outlines reserved in all figures. On outer edge of rim ivy leaf band. On neck, A, lotus bud chain with points downwards. Pictures framed by a tongue pattern above, ivy leaves at sides. On base, rays. Execution fair, that of A superior to that of B. Rim broken and repaired.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics Excavated from Tomb V Poggio Sommavilla Italy by Fausto Benedetti Italy (1896-1897) sold; to Joseph Clark Hoppin Boston (1897-1925) bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum 1925. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
Title: Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Youth Playing a Lyre
Description:
Side A: In the center a youth wrapped in a mantle, seated to right on a square object holding in his left a lyre the strings of which are now missing but were originallly applied in white as shown by a few traces.
Facing him a bearded man to left entirely wrapped in his mantle and leaning on a staff.
At the left a second youth clad in a cloak which leaves his right arm and shoulder bare, holding a staff in his right.
In the field a pair of halteres, a sponge and a strigil.
Side B: Bearded man with staff and youth facing each other, both entirely wrapped in their cloaks.
In the field a sponge.
Hair outlines reserved in all figures.
On outer edge of rim ivy leaf band.
On neck, A, lotus bud chain with points downwards.
Pictures framed by a tongue pattern above, ivy leaves at sides.
On base, rays.
Execution fair, that of A superior to that of B.
Rim broken and repaired.

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