Lekythos

30-51-2

Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 30-51-2
Current Location Greece Gallery - On Display
Culture Attic
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location Attica
Creator Achilles Painter
Date Made 470-450 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Red Figure
Iconography Horseman | Hunter
Description

Horseman (hunter?), riding to right. Youth wearing short cloak pinned over right shoulder and circular hat hanging behind shoulder; carrying two spears horizontally in right hand. Border of maeander and x's above; key pattern below. Palmettes on shoulder. Mended from many fragments.

Height 42.2 cm
Outside Diameter 13.1 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Valentine Mueller, 1930

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