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Attic Red-Figure Column Krater

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Myson worked in Athens in the period from 500 to 475 B.C. decorating vases in the red-figure technique. He appears to have learned his craft in the workshop of one of the Pioneers, perhaps Phintias. His one surviving signature is on a krater dedicated on the Athenian Akropolis; it indicates that he was both a potter and a vase-painter. Although he made other shapes as well, Myson specialized in th

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Date: about 490 B.C.
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Greek (Attic)
Department: Vessels
Institution: Getty Museum

Body, A. Dancing girl facing right, holding krotala (clappers) in both hands. She is nude save for the wreath around her head. She has short hair and bends her head and body forward. B. Diskobolos (diskos thrower) moving to the right with left foot forward. He holds a diskos in his left hand and raises it to be level with his head. He looks down, with knees bent. As his right hand moves back, he draws his right foot back off the ground and places his weight on his left. The thrower is nude except for a wreath around his head. The diskos is decorated with an owl in silhouette. Rim slightly convex on top with a vertical overhang; a flat handle plate extending beyond the rim at each side is supported by two columns; ovoid body; ogee foot. Top of rim black. On neck: A, black dotted chain of pendant lotus buds between two black lines in a reserved panel; B, black. Body black. Zone of black rays above the foot. Outside foot black except for bottom. Resting surface and underside foot reserved. Interior black.

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