Detail of the Askos Attributed to the Circle of the Rose Painter in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, June 2018

Gnathian Askos (Wine Flask)

Attributed to the, The Rose Painter (Artist), close to, Painter of Lecce 1075 (Artist)

Date:ca. 330 BC

Culture: South Italian (Gnathia)

Category: Ceramics
Containers-Vessels

Medium: terracotta

Dimensions: Overall: 11 × 10 × 10 1/2 in. (27.94 × 25.4 × 26.67 cm)

Object Number: 80.72

South Italian potters and painted experimented with a variety of forms and techniques. This askos (literally, a wineskin) includes the sculpted, mold-made head of a woman serving as a spout, a painted depiction of Eros (god of love) on the front, and a relief-beneath the handle-of Actaeon, a mythical hunter who was devoured by his own hunting hounds after he accidentally saw Artemis, the virgin goddess of the hunt, bathing.

Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-107883774