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Painter of the Yale Lekythos
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- On left is Lekythos, Vase E575 by an unknown Ancient Greek (vase painter) in ca. 470 BCE measuring 39.37 cm in Height. Vase was created in Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, discovered Gela, Sicily, Italy, and housed at British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom under Repository ID: 1863,0728.97. Pottery: red-figured lekythos. Woman pouring wine for a warrior. On the right stands a bearded warrior en face, with left foot turned to right, with short tied chiton, mantle over shoulders, helmet with raised cheek-pieces, greaves, spear held upright in right, and shield (device, an ithyphallic satyr standing to left with right leg advanced, body thrown back, right hand on hip, blowing a long trumpet; in black silhouette, resting on a thin black ground-line). From the shield hangs an apron attached to the rim by three black studs, with a border of zigzags between them; the lower edge is fringed with tabs in form of spear-heads; above this is an embattled line, and then a large human left eye and eyebrow, with eyelashes above and below, indicated in thinned black. The warrior looks to left at a woman in long Ionic chiton and mantle, hair looped up with fillet, who offers him with her right a phiale filled from an oinochoe in her left hand. Late stage of large style. Brown inner markings and edge of hair. Below and above, maeander. On shoulder, central inverted palmette with two side palmettes and two flowers (partly broken away); round neck, egg pattern. --The British Museum; On right is Lekythos, Vase E576 by Painter of the Yale Lekythos in 470-450 BCE measuring 35.56 cm in Height. Vase was created in Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, discovered Gela, Sicily, Italy, and housed at British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom under Repository ID: 1863,0728.348. Pottery: red-figured lekythos. Nike pouring wine for a warrior. On the right a youthful warrior stands en face, with short chiton, cuirass (decorated with panther's mask in outline on shoulder-piece), helmet with raised cheek-pieces, greaves and shield (device, a lion lying to left, black silhouette on black ground-line), holding spear upright in right hand; he looks to left at Nike, who pours wine from an oinochoe into a phiale; she wears a long Ionic chiton, mantle and sphendone, and her hair is looped up. Late stage of large style. Brown inner markings and edge of hair. Below and above, maeander. On shoulder, central inverted palmette with two side palmettes and two flower; round neck, egg pattern. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893