Apulian Red-Figured Lebes Gamikos

Culture: [Greek](http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p08m57h7jrk) Material: Ceramic Dims: H 19.3 Accession No: HCM 234 Current Location: The Hunt Museum Limerick. A [Lebes gamikos](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300265007) is a Greek wedding gift. Its role was to carry the water which was sprinkled over the bride in the ceremony. [Red figure painting](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300020201) was an invention of the Athenians in the sixth-century BC. South Italian Greek colonies, including [Apulia](http://www.geonames.org/3169778/puglia.html), continued red-figure vase production after its decline in Athens. There are painted scenes on either side of the object. On one, a woman seated on a rock cradles a dish and on the other, a winged Eros, god of love, clutches a mirror in his right hand. Both figures have rounded bodies, necklaces, bracelets and anklets. Eros wears a beaded bandolier. [More](https://www.huntmuseum.com/explore/item/7876ccfb-7f59-3dc7-ade9-982fe92939a2/?s%3Dapulian&pos=1).