Attic Red-Figure Lidded Skyphoid Fragment. Attributed to Onesimos, painter (Greek (Attic), active 500 - 480 ) Attributed to Euphronios, potter (Greek (Attic), active 520 - 480 ) about 490 Fragment of body and edge of lid. Exterior: Theseus (nude, fillet, hair in krobylos) attacking to the right with an axe, reaches forward to clasp the hair on Prokrustes' (bearded, nude, fillet) forehead. A hat (pilos), a sword in its scabbard and a piece of drapery hang in the tree to the right. Both figures are named. On the lid, part of a tree (?). ΘEΣEYΣ ("Theseus); Π[ΡOKΡUΣT]EΣ ("P[rokrust]es


Attic Red-Figure Lidded Skyphoid Fragment. Attributed to Onesimos, painter (Greek (Attic), active 500 - 480 ) Attributed to Euphronios, potter (Greek (Attic), active 520 - 480 ) about 490 Fragment of body and edge of lid. Exterior: Theseus (nude, fillet, hair in krobylos) attacking to the right with an axe, reaches forward to clasp the hair on Prokrustes' (bearded, nude, fillet) forehead. A hat (pilos), a sword in its scabbard and a piece of drapery hang in the tree to the right. Both figures are named. On the lid, part of a tree (?). ΘEΣEYΣ ("Theseus); Π[ΡOKΡUΣT]EΣ ("P[rokrust]es")


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