Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos

On view

East-West Artwalk
Haskell Education Center

Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos,

ca. 490 BCE

attributed to the Athena Painter
Greek, Attic
Archaic Period, ca. 600–480 BCE
2003-260

Information

Title
Lekythos (oil vessel) depicting Apollo killing Tityos
Dates

ca. 490 BCE

Maker
attributed to the Athena Painter
Medium
Black-figure with white-ground ceramic
Dimensions
pres. h. 14.1 x diam. 8.0 x diam. foot 5.9 cm (5 9/16 × 3 1/8 × 2 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Object Number
2003-260
Place Made

Europe, Greece, Athens

Culture
Attic
Period
Archaic (Greek), Black-figure, White-ground
Type
ceramics, lekythoi
Materials
ceramic
Subject
deities, mythology, men, swords, arrows, chitons, chlamyses, himations, figures (representations), women

Purchased by the donor from Robert Hecht Jr and Atlantis Antiquities, New York; given to the Museum in 2003

Black-figure Lekythos (White-ground): Apollo Killing Tityos

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