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Paestan Squat Lekythos
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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- 350–340 B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek (Paestan)
- Department
- Vessels
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- db1ed84e-dfe7-426a-b827-0fabccfb3ce1
From the Getty Museum record
Depicted on the body is the Garden of the Hesperides. In the center is a tree bearing golden apples. Around its trunk is a coiled serpent with red crest and white belly, who feeds from a phiale held in the hand of one of the Hesperides. On the other side of the tree, a Hesperid is picking an apple; she holds two more in her left hand. To the left of the tree is a partially draped Hesperid sitting on a palmette who holds a mirror into which she gazes while dressing her hair. To the right is a Hesperid who holds out a beaded wreath towards a small bird perched on the rim of a large washbasin. Above this figure is the half-figure of an elderly, balding satyr who holds an egg in one hand and a thyrsos in the other.
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