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Attic Red-Figure Lekythos
Creator
Carlsruhe PainterGreek Painter
All works by this person →The Carlsruhe Painter, named after a vase attributed to him now in a museum in Carlsruhe, Germany, is known for painting oil flasks called lekythoi. He worked in Athens, both in the red-figure technique and in outline on white ground vases. White ground painting was a specialized technique used almost exclusively to paint funerary lekythoi. These vases, filled with a small amount of precious oil,
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- 470–460 B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek (Attic)
- Department
- Vessels
- Institution
- Getty Museum
*They put down a stone and throw at it from a distance with balls or pebbles. The one who fails to overturn the stone carries the other, having his eyes blindfolded by the rider, until, if he does not go astray, he reaches the stone, which is called a dioros.* -- Pollux Children in antiquity played *ephedrismos*, the game the ancient Greek writer Pollux describes above and which is pictured on this lekythos. Although this looks like a scene of children at play, the two figures represented here are actually a satyr--identified by his beard and the hint of a tail--and a short-haired woman called a maenad. Both satyrs and maenads were followers of Dionysos, the god of wine, vegetation, and the theater.
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