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Tripod Pyxis

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Date: about 540 B.C.
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Greek (Attic)
Department: Vessels
Institution: Getty Museum

The bowl of the pyxis has a torus rim, supported by three legs, each with a torus base molding. Leg A: Herakles (in a short chiton) and the Lion flanked by two males clothed in himatia, both holding rings or fillet. Leg B: man courting naked long-haired youth (erastes and eromenos) between naked youths and clothed males (parts of the legs and feet of the figures missing). Leg C: Theseus (in short chiton) and the Minotaur flanked by a pair of youths clothed in himatia, each holding a ring or fillet.

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