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Attic Red-Figure Lekythos
Creator
Eucharides PainterPainter
All works by this person →By the early 400s B.C., most Athenian vase-painters had committed to either the black-figure or the newer red-figure technique of vase decoration. The Eucharides Painter was one of the few artists to leave a substantial group of vases in both techniques. Working in Athens in the years from about 500 to 470 B.C., the Eucharides Painter decorated a wide variety of vase shapes, from large kraters to
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- about 480 B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek (Attic)
- Department
- Vessels
- Institution
- Getty Museum
A young man holding a lyre made from a tortoise shell decorates this Athenian red-figure lekythos. He stands resting one hand on a walking stick and wearing only a mantle wrapped over one shoulder. Aristocratic Greek youths were trained in a variety of skills. In addition to athletics, boys were taught the arts of music and poetry, which were considered essential for well-bred youths to master. A lekythos was used to store and pour precious oil, and the narrow neck and bowl-shaped mouth helped conserve the expensive commodity. Lekythoi and many other vessels produced in Athenian pottery workshop were exported to Italy, and an *M* -shaped graffito scratched under the foot of this lekythos was a trader's mark, used to identify goods in shipment.
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