. English: Pottery: Apulian red-figured globular pyxis. In front is Eros flying to left, looking back; his hair is tied up with a fillet, and he wears an opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, a string of beads round his body and another round his left thigh, anklet on left leg, and sandals; drapery passes over his arms behind his body. His wings are richly marked in white and yellow; in right hand he holds a wreath, and in left a situla, round which a taenia is tied; beneath him is a hare running to left. In the field are numerous plants, flowers, and rosettes, and at the back a lar
. English: Pottery: Apulian red-figured globular pyxis. In front is Eros flying to left, looking back; his hair is tied up with a fillet, and he wears an opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, a string of beads round his body and another round his left thigh, anklet on left leg, and sandals; drapery passes over his arms behind his body. His wings are richly marked in white and yellow; in right hand he holds a wreath, and in left a situla, round which a taenia is tied; beneath him is a hare running to left. In the field are numerous plants, flowers, and rosettes, and at the back a large palmette pattern. Attributed to The Stuttgart Group. Made in Puglia. 330BC-310BC. British Museum Native name British Museum Location London Coordinates 51° 31′ ″ N, 0° 07′ ″ W Established 1753 Web page Authority control : Q6373 VIAF: 134857252 ISNI: 0000 0001 2342 8817 ULAN: 500125180 LCCN: n79107735 NLA: 35022119 WorldCat 53 Apulian red-figured globular pyxis, Puglia
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Keywords: ., /., 330bc-310bc., british, mu, museum, native,
