She has long curls, necklace and bracelets, an embroidered veil over her head, long chiton and apoptygma embroidered with chequer, palmettes, and other patterns, girdle with white studs, and sandals her right hand is raised in supplication. (a) Alcmene appealing to Zeus against Amphitryon: In the centre is Alcmene, seated to left on an altar, which is painted white with egg-moulding along the top and an imitation of triglyphs below (markings in yellow) in front of it is erected a pyre of round logs. Above the designs, (a) ivy-wreath and egg-moulding, (b) laurel-wreath under the handles, palmette-patterns below the designs, (a) maeander and chequer, (b) wave-pattern. Designs in panels, red on black ground, with accessories of white and purple. Pottery: red-figured bell-krater (wine-bowl).attributed to Python II (Greek vase painter, active 4th century BCE in southern Italy).Margaret Ellen Mayo, The Art of South Italy, Vases fro Magna Greacia.Size: L:243mm / W:263mm 1.3KgProvenance:Ex Private South London Dealer, Ex From the private collection of a Somerset gentleman previously in an old British collection, formed before 2000 on the UK /European art markets. The vessel featuring a stylised composite palmettes beneath each handle, frets surrounding the handle terminals, a register of meander below the scenes. The B-side shows two facing draped youths in conversation. Facing her on the left, a naked youth, his head adorned with curly coiffure and a himation draped over his outstretched left arm. She holds a thyrsus in her left hand and a pyxis in her right. She is draped in a diaphanous garment pinned at the shoulders, bedecked with bracelets, a beaded necklace, drop earrings, and ribbons. Above the belt, the garment is bloused to form a kolpos. Side A features a seated maenad, wearing a stylised chiton fastened below her breasts by a belt. An exquisite Apulian bell krater with its surface area painted via the red-figure technique with added fugitive yellow pigment.

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