Pelike
This shape of jar, also called ‘amphorae’, are shown in pictures from ancient Greece being used to store liquids. On one side is the god Eros placing a crown on a woman. On the other are two ‘mantle’ figures, one placing a wreath on an altar.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 45/1931/1
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collector Excavator
- Earl of Perth
- Material
- potteryterracottaRed figure ware
- Common Name
- pelike
- Simple Name
- vessel
- Period Classification
- Classical - 500-336 BC
- Production Country
- Italy
- Production Date
- -325
- Production Person Surname
- Schlaepfer Painter (Trendall and Cambitoglou)
