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Oil flask (lekythos) with the hunter Kephalos and his dog

Oil flask (lekythos) with the hunter Kephalos and his dog

Red-figure the Pan Painter · Lekythos · about 470 B.C.
Young hunter, standing in front view, right leg in profile to left, face profile to right, wearing tunic, gaiters, chlamys and broad-brimmed petasos, sword in scabbard, holds spear in left. Before him a dog to right. Grafitto under the foot of the vase.
Shape
Lekythos
Technique
Red-figure
Period
Early Classical Period
Date
about 470 B.C.
Culture
Greek
Painter
the Pan Painter
Dimensions
H: 99.57 cm
Medium
Ceramic, Red Figure
Findspot
Greece, Attica, Athens
Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Accession Number
13.198
Image Source
boston_mfa

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