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Attic Red-Figure Calyx Krater Fragment

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Potter

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Euphronios was a vase-painter and potter working in the red-figure technique in Athens from about 520 to 470 B.C. He signed his name on eighteen vases, six times as painter and twelve times as potter. To judge by their drawing style, the vases that he signed as potter seem to be later than those he signed as painter. In his early career Euphronios was one of a group of Athenian vase-painters who h

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Date: about 515–510 B.C.
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Greek (Attic)
Department: Vessels
Institution: Getty Museum

The fragment preserves part of the upper wall of a calyx krater. On the body, partial figure of Athena looking left, with her left arm stretched behind her out to the right; her aegis conceals her hand. She wears an low-crested Attic helmet with no cheekpieces, which reveals her ear (with round earring). Her spear is on the left, evidently held in her right hand at an angle across her body. Her partially preserved name (ATH]ENA) appears above her arm, and another partial inscription is preserved at the right edge: ]SEUS (Perseus or Theseus?) The rim is decorated with a palmette frieze, and part of an upward palmette and its tendril scroll are preserved.

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