Attic Red-Figure Cup (Type B?)

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Attic Red-Figure Cup (Type B?)

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Eretria Painter

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Working in Athens, the Eretria Painter decorated vases in the red-figure technique from around 440 to 410 B.C. Over half of the almost 150 vases that scholars attribute to him are cups, but his finest work is on small pots such as oinochoai and lekythoi. The Eretria Painter decorated numerous vases with conventional mythological and athletic scenes, but he also painted more innovative imagery that

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Date: about 430 B.C.
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Greek (Attic)
Department: Vessels
Institution: Getty Museum

I: Mounted warrior with spear, bow, and quiver riding to left; Exterior: A: Three warriors, one of whom holds a horse; B: Two warriors to right, one mounted, the other on foot beside his horse, looking back.

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