An “Aquarelle” Pelike from A.E. Liutsenko’s Excavations of the Pantikapaion Necropolis: the Problems of Date, Attributing and Semantic
Journal: The Actual Problems of History and Theory of Art
Year: 2013

The present study considers an Hermitage piece of Hellenistic pottery from the group known as Bosporian “aquarelle” pelikai once made in the North Pontic region. This vessel with added color painting showing a half-figure of a syncretic goddess should be referred to as belonging to a local type of sepulchral pottery imitating Attic red-figure vases of the Kerch style. The author of the article discusses semantics of the painted image, which seems to be thoroughly familiar, on the one hand, from