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Group of Attic Red-Figure Coral-Red Phiale Fragments (21)
Creator
OnesimosPainter
All works by this person →"Onesimos" means "profitable" in Greek and may have been a nickname. Onesimos worked in Athens in the early 400s B.C. decorating vases. He painted vases primarily in the red-figure technique, but he also decorated some white-ground vases. Although many vase-painters tended to specialize in certain types of vases, Onesimos was unusual in the degree to which he decorated cups almost exclusively. He
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- about 480 B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek (Attic)
- Department
- Vessels
- Institution
- Getty Museum
The figural decoration on the inside of the phiale shows a combat between Amazons and Greeks. It may depict the battle between Achilles and Penthesilea, but not enough survives to ascertain this with certainty. A band of coral-red between black lines decorates both the interior rim area and the zone around the now-missing omphalos of the phiale. The exterior is decorated with a black zone at the rim and around the now-missing omphalos, and the area in between with coral-red.
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