Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask)
The youth Chrysippos with Aphrodite, Eros, and Pompe
Chrysippos, wearing the boots, mantle, and broad-brimmed hat of a traveler, talks with Eros who points toward Aphrodite. Next to the goddess stands a casket, on it a pair of shoes. The woman to the left is unidentified, the other one is Pompe (the personification of procession). Beside her are traces of a ritual basket that would have been depicted in applied clay with gilding. The details of the scene point to a marriage procession.
Chrysippos, wearing the boots, mantle, and broad-brimmed hat of a traveler, talks with Eros who points toward Aphrodite. Next to the goddess stands a casket, on it a pair of shoes. The woman to the left is unidentified, the other one is Pompe (the personification of procession). Beside her are traces of a ritual basket that would have been depicted in applied clay with gilding. The details of the scene point to a marriage procession.
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask)
- Artist: Attributed to the manner of the Meidias Painter
- Period: Classical
- Date: ca. 410 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; red-figure
- Dimensions: H. 7 7/8 in. (20 cm)
diameter 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm) - Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1911
- Object Number: 11.213.2
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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