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Paestan Vase with Lid (Perhaps from Another Vase)
Creator
AsteasPainter
All works by this person →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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- about 340 B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek (South Italian, Paestan)
- Department
- Vessels
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 2ee621f9-280b-4316-ae60-c7e6e4a3cbd6
From the Getty Museum record
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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