Paestan Vase with Lid (Perhaps from Another Vase)

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Paestan Vase with Lid (Perhaps from Another Vase)

Creator

Asteas

Painter

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Asteas was the most important of the vase-painters working at Paestum in South Italy. The principal artist of a large workshop, he may have invented the free-standing half-palmettes, used to frame an image, that became characteristic of Paestan vase-painting. Asteas decorated hydriai and kraters, as well as some smaller vases, in the red-figure technique. Asteas was one of only two South Italian v

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Date
about 340 B.C.
Medium
Terracotta
Culture
Greek (South Italian, Paestan)
Department
Vessels
Institution
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Amphora with Orestes about to slay Clytemnestra. The neck and proper left handle have been reconstructed. A separate lid (80.AE.155.2) was associated with the vase, but does not belong. For further description, see individual records.

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