Black-Figure Kylix Fragment

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The Boreads Painter directed one of the most important pottery workshops in Sparta some time in the years between 575 and 550 B.C. He decorated vases in the black-figure technique and may also have been a potter. As with most vase-painters, the real name of the Boreads Painter is unknown, and he is identified only by the style of his work, namely his particular way of drawing figures' eyes, ears,