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Attic Red-Figure Lidded Jar Fragment
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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- 500–480 B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek (Attic)
- Department
- Vessels
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Upper surface: female figure in a thin chiton reclining against a cushion. She faces left, a barbitos (stringed instrument) on her lap. She is touching the cords with her left hand, while the right arm rests on her bent knee. At the left edge of the fragment, an oblique bar (stem of a thyrsos?) and a snake. Above the figure, a reserve band marked with one concentric line. The inner edge is black. Underside and outer edge, undecorated.
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