Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask) ca. 410 Attributed to the manner of the Meidias Painter The youth Chrysippos with Aphrodite, Eros, and PompeChrysippos, 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 Terracotta
Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask) ca. 410 Attributed to the manner of the Meidias Painter The youth Chrysippos with Aphrodite, Eros, and PompeChrysippos, 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 Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask). Greek, Attic. ca. 410 Terracotta; red-figure. Classical. Vases
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