Terracotta lekythos (oil flask) ca. 375–350 Associated in style with the Lecce Painter Woman pushing girl on a swing, youth sitting on an altar, and HermesThe Aiora and Anthesteria, Athenian festivals dedicated to Dionysos, god of wine, included girls swinging. The Hermaia, celebrating Hermes, the messenger god, featured athletes; the youth here holds a strigil (scraper), and Hermes himself stands by a column suggesting a sacred precinct. The Athenian festivals may have had Apulian Terracotta lekythos (oil flask). Greek, South Italian, Apulian. ca. 375–350 Terracotta;
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask) ca. 375–350 Associated in style with the Lecce Painter Woman pushing girl on a swing, youth sitting on an altar, and HermesThe Aiora and Anthesteria, Athenian festivals dedicated to Dionysos, god of wine, included girls swinging. The Hermaia, celebrating Hermes, the messenger god, featured athletes; the youth here holds a strigil (scraper), and Hermes himself stands by a column suggesting a sacred precinct. The Athenian festivals may have had Apulian Terracotta lekythos (oil flask). Greek, South Italian, Apulian. ca. 375–350 Terracotta; red-figure. Late Classical. Vases
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