Lucanian Red-Figure Vase Fragments (2)

Creusa Painter

about 400–390 B.C.

Terracotta

J. Paul Getty Museum

These are fragments of a black-figure vase, showing parts of figures and decorative patterns. The fragments are arranged in a way that suggests a reconstructed object. Fragments of a bell-krater decorated with three youths draped in himatia. The youth at the left faces right and is completely draped in his himation, which has a wide black border at the top. The other two youths face left. Of the central youth, only the middle part of the body and the bent right leg survive. Of the third youth, only the lower part of his body is extant on this fragment, his head is preserved on a separate fragment (82.AE.39.7.g). Composed of seven fragments, preserved as two groups of joined fragments (82.AE.39.7.b.1 and 82.AE.39.7.b.2) due to a failed join just above the right knee of the central figure. Trendall,