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Vase Catalog Number: Kansas City 33.3/2
Images | Browse Images| Collection: | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | ||
| Summary: | Eos pursuing a boy with a lyre (Tithonos?) | ||
| Ware: | Attic Red Figure | Shape: | Lekythos |
| Painter: | Perhaps by the the Achilles Painter | Potter: | |
| Context: | From Gela | Region: | Sicily |
| Date: | 450 B.C. - 440 B.C. | Period: | Classical |
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Decoration: Wings outstretched behind her, Eos floats above the groundline, moving from left to right, her arms reaching forward toward the youth (Tithonos?). She is wearing a chiton and a stephane. The youth (Tithonos?), in a himation and wearing a wreath, runs in front of her toward the right, looking back at her over his right shoulder. He holds a lyre in his left hand, above his head. The depiction of Eos hovering is rare; more usually she is seen running.
Sources Used:
(Maria Daniels)
Keywords:chiton, diadem, Eos, lyre, palmette, pursuing, pursuit, stephane, Tithonos, winged, wreath
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| Archive Number | Caption | |
|---|---|---|
| 1990.18.0383 | Overview: handle oblique left rear | Photograph courtesy of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1990.18.0384 | Overview: handle rear | Photograph courtesy of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1990.18.0385 | Overview: handle oblique right rear | Photograph courtesy of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1990.18.0386 | Overview: handle oblique left front | Photograph courtesy of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |