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Attic Black-Figure Kalpis Fragment

Date

about 510 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek (Attic)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

Composed of four fragments, giving part of the neck, shoulder, and body. On the shoulder, a figured panel with a red line along the upper edge, and framed by a glaze line on all four sides. Depicted are Leto, Apollo, and Artemis at an altar. Leto stands at left, facing right, with her left hand raised. Before her sits Apollo, facing right, playing a kithara. He sits on a campstool before a low, burning altar. Facing Apollo is Artemis, lifting her himation with her right hand. All three divinities wear a himation over a long chiton, and their names are inscribed. Apollo wears a wreath, Leto and Artemis an apicate fillet. Below, in the handle zone, horizontal and slanted open palmettes circumscribed by linked tendrils, with dots below. Adapted from Clark, A., Malibu CVA 1 (1988).

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