Pottery: red-figured hydria (water jar). Design red on black ground. Round the lip, egg-moulding; on the neck, laurel-wreath; below the design, maeander. Toilet scene: In the centre is a female figure seated on a rock to left, with hair in a knot, ampyx, necklace, long girt chiton with stripe down the front, and staff in right hand; before her is a female figure with long girt chiton and diploidion with stripe down the side, holding over her head an opisthosphendone. On the right is a youth advancing with chlamys over his arms, in right hand a mirror. --The British Museum, Trendall, A D, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Clarendon Press, 1967; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
On left is a Bell krater, Old Catalogue 1290, Vase E500, measuring at 31 cm in height, 32.8 cm in diameter, and 2.2 kg in weight. The vase was created in Albano di Lucania, Basilicata, Italy and is housed at British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom under Repository ID: 1849,0518.12. Pottery: red-figured bell-krater. (a) Eos pursuing Kephalos. Eos, with long chiton, a mantle, and a broad fillet, runs to right, laying her right on the shoulder of Kephalos, a youth in a heavy mantle, who flees, looking back. On the left a similar youth, with a fillet, moves away to left, looking back. (b) A draped ephebos to left, his head uncovered, between two more draped ephebi, confronted, staff in hand. Late stage of good period. –The British Museum; On right is a Hydria, Vase E223, measuring at 34 cm in height, 29.2 cm in width, and 2 kg in weight. The vase was created in Albano di Lucania, Basilicata, Italy, discovered at Nola, Campania, Italy and is housed at British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom under Repository ID: 1867,0508.1128. Pottery: red-figured hydria (water jar). Three women at toilet (?). In the centre a woman in a saccos moves to right, holding out both hands towards one confronting her, who holds in both hands a taenia; between them is a calathos. On left a woman wearing an himation stands en face, but looking to right and holding up in her right a mirror. All three wear sleeved chiton: the two side figures have their hair looped up with a radiated stephane. Over the central figure is inscribed, AYTOΠΣΙA, Αυτοψία. Purple inscription. Brown markings of calathos. Eye in profile. Design curves over shoulder. Below, sets of three inlanders separated by red cross squares: above, a strip of laurel wreath. –The British Museum, Trendall, A D, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Clarendon Press, 1967; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893