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Source Description
This red-figure alabastron depicts a woman seated on a diphros in profile to the left juggling three balls. She wears a chiton, disc earring and fillet. On the ground in front sits a kalathos above which a lekythos hangs.On the back, a woman in a chiton and sakkos stands frontally, looking left. She holds her left hand up, the right is out at her side. On the right is a klismos facing left with a mantle bundled on the seat.A woman juggling balls or fruit is not an unpopular scene, and many exampes are found on lekythoi. The balls on this vase are likely to be made of wool, as the kalathos suggests, although they are apple-shaped.
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Document identity
localId
34281
label
Alabastron with Two Women
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obj
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object
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Source metadata
id
34281
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Alabastron with Two Women
description
This red-figure alabastron depicts a woman seated on a diphros in profile to the left juggling three balls. She wears a chiton, disc earring and fillet. On the ground in front sits a kalathos above which a lekythos hangs.On the back, a woman in a chiton and sakkos stands frontally, looking left. She holds her left hand up, the right is out at her side. On the right is a klismos facing left with a mantle bundled on the seat.A woman juggling balls or fruit is not an unpopular scene, and many exampes are found on lekythoi. The balls on this vase are likely to be made of wool, as the kalathos suggests, although they are apple-shaped.
provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 480 BCE (Early Classical)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
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Ceramics
alabastra
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5
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5
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
12.9
height
4.4
dimensionsRaw
5 1/16 x 1 3/4 in. (12.9 x 4.4 cm) (h. x max. diam.);at rim: 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm) (diam.);at mouth: 1/2 in. (1.2 cm) (diam.)
Source extras
style
Attic
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terracotta
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6256
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GRC
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none
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