Stamnos with a Women's Toilette Scene

This wine jar lay in the same tomb at Falerii as the painter's krater with the dawn goddess, tomb 4 of the Colonnette cemetery, so whoever was buried there was given at least two large vases from his hand, both painted in the second quarter of the 4th century BC. Its main scene is closer to everyday life. Four women, naked or half-dressed, gather at a perirrhanterion, a wide basin on a tall stand, and a heron has settled on it. Basins of this kind stood at the entrances of Greek sanctuaries for washing before entering, and on painted vases they often set the scene for women bathing.

On the back a woman holding a thyrsus, the ivy-topped staff of Dionysos, and a tambourine stands with a naked youth who holds a drinking horn.