Athenian red-figure pyxis: wedding of Herakles
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Apulian red-figure lekythos

Athenian red-figure amphora

Classification
amphora; red-figure pottery
Culture
Greek (culture)
Dimensions
height: 31.1 cm
Date
ca. 480 B.C.
Period
Classical Period (480–323)
Material
clay
Artist
Thitonos Painter
Iconography
ivy leaf; mantle; youth; jug; meander; incense burner (thymiaterion)
Production place
Athens
Present location
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities
Provenance
Budapest, Museum of Applied Arts
Inventory
50.153
ID
Hyp-3047
References
Beazley 1963, 309, no. 7

The Nolan type amphora depicts a mantled youth with a jug in his right hand, while on the other side there is another youth with a thymiaterion in his right hand.

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