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Vase Catalog Number: London E 135

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Collection:London, British Museum
Summary:Scythian archer
Ware:Attic Red Figure Shape:Plate
Painter:Signed by Epiktetos Potter:
Context:From Vulci Region:Etruria
Date:ca. 510 B.C. - 500 B.C. Period:Archaic
Dimensions:

H. 0.02 m., D. rim 0.194 m.

Primary Citation:ARV2, 78, 93.

Decoration:

Interior: a Scythian archer running to left, looking back. He holds his bow with his right hand and draws an arrow with his left from a quiver slung around his shoulder.

He is beardless, and wears a dappled jacket, trousers, and a kidaris or Scythian hat whose flaps hang down onto his chest. Inscription around scene, EPIKTETOS EGRASPHEN ("Epiktetos painted it").

Inscriptions:

EPIKTETOS EGRASPHEN ("Epiktetos painted it")

Sources Used:

Smith 1896, 136

Other Bibliography:

Boardman 1975, fig. 77

(Beth McIntosh)

Keywords:

archer, arrow, bow, hat, kidaris, quiver, running, Scythian, Scythian archer

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Archive NumberCaption
1990.14.0197Tondo: Scythian archerPhotograph courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum, London
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