male and a female holding offering bowls (phialai), presumably a god and a goddess,
sit in a temple in front of which is an altar with a fire burning on it. A white-haired
figure with a draped winnowing basket (liknon) on his or her head approaches from
the right, followed by a woman playing pipes and another beating atympanon.
Figure26.11 Ecstatic worship in the presence of two deities on an Attic red-figure volute krater
from Spina ca. 440 BC. Ferrara 2897. Photograph: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Ferrara
414 T.H. Carpenter