Red-figure lekythos: youth attacking with a sword
Red-figure lekythos: youth attacking with a sword
Red-figure lekythos: youth attacking with a sword
Red-figure lekythos: youth attacking with a sword
Red-figure lekythos: youth attacking with a sword
Red-figure lekythos: youth attacking with a sword
Red-figure lekythos: youth attacking with a sword
Red-figure lekythos: youth attacking with a sword

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Red-figure lekythos: youth attacking with a sword,

ca. 470 BCE

attributed to the Cartellino Painter, Greek (Attic), active ca. 500-475 BCE
Greek, Attic
y1991-22

Information

Title
Red-figure lekythos: youth attacking with a sword
Dates

ca. 470 BCE

Maker
attributed to the Cartellino Painter
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
h. 24.2 cm, diam. 8.1 cm (9 1/2 x 3 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of the Advisory Council of The Art Museum, in honor of J. Robert Guy
Object Number
y1991-22
Inscription
On the figure's extended cloak is written "DORIS", i.e Douris, the name of a well-known and more prolific contemporary vase-painter whose name is written--without an accompanying verb--on all the vases of the Cartellino Painter.
Culture
Attic
Period
Red-figure
Type
lekythoi, ceramics
Materials
ceramic
Subject
swords, palmettes, running ornament, figures (representations), meanders (patterns), youth

Purchased from Robert Hecht, Jr. and Atlantis Antiquities, New York, 1991.

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