Recent Acquisitions |  |
| Attic Red-Figures Stemless Kylix (N.503) |  |
| Stemless red-figure kylix (ca. 460 BCE; D. 14 cm; formerly in a British collection since1969). The tondo carries a youth reclining on a couch, holding out his own stemless kylix. The style seems reminiscent of the group around Makron. | |
| terracotta lamp mold (N.507) |  |
| Terracotta mould for making the upper part of an Ephesian lamp (1st century CE; L. 11.6 cm; from the Meyn collection, Amsterdam, since the 1950s.) | |
| Cypriote "milk bowl" (N.508) |  |
| Cypriote Milk Bowl (ca. 1400-1375 BCE; 16.5 cm; formerly in the Gyorgy Kepes collection since 1928). The bowl is decorated with a thick white slip with the usual brown bands imitating "leather" straps. | |
| terracotta hydrophoros (N.502) |  |
| Terracotta statuette of a woman carrying a hydria (early 4th c. BCE; H. 23 cm; formerly in a European collection since the 1950s). She preserves much of her original paint. | |
| Mycenaean terracotta "phi" figurine (N.509) | |
| Mycenaean Phi figurine (14th c. BCE; H. 9.9 cm; from a British collection since the early twentieth century). See E. French, "The Development of Mycenaean Terracotta Figurines," Annual of the British School of Archaeology at Athens 71, 1966, 101-87, esp. p. 109, fig. 1, & pp. 116-23, pl. 16a no. 39451 from Mycenae. | |
| red-figure pelike by the Tyszkiewicz Painter (N.510) |  |
| Medium sized red-figure pelike by the Tyszkiewicz Painter (ca. 470 BCE; H. 26.7 cm; published in Beazley, ARV2 1643.58bis [1963]; and no. 275164 in the Beazley Archive online database). On the obverse, an adult Athenian citizen stands with his house dog; on the reverse, Eros flies in to capture a hare. The vase was purchased in memory of Paul Rehak from funds donated by Friends of Paul Rehak and by the Department of Classics. | |
| South Italian Lekanis (N.505) |  |
| A red-figure South Italian lekanis with lid, the Winterthur Group from Apulia, 350-325 BCE (D. 18.30 cm; formerly in the collection of David Gibson, United Kingdom, since the 1930s). The lid is decorated with the heads of two women separated by palmettes. | |
| South Italian Plate (N.504) |
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| Red-figure South Italian plate decorated rather richly with a woman's head in the center surrounded by three bands of "waves," an ivy tendril, and short tongues (early to mid 4th c. BCE; D. 17 cm; formerly in a Belgian private collection since 1970). | |
| Daunian Bowl (N.660) |  |
| A small bowl with vertical loop handles, painted with matt black/brown and red stripes, a lozange (undecorated) on the base and (decorated) in the bottom of the bowl. | |
| Daunian Jug (N.661) |  |
| A small jug with trefoil mouth, decorated with black/brown and red stripes and a wavy line on the exterior, and, on the interior of the mouth (outlined in black/brown), four sets of three vertical lines below the handle and each everted area of the spout. | |
| Small bronze lamp, late Roman imperial (N.662) |  |
| A small bronze lamp with long spout and two horizontal handles at the side. Donated by Shirley Phillips in honor of her husband, Oliver Phillips, long a member of the KU Department of Classics. | |
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