MANNER OF THE EPELEIOS PAINTER, CIRCA 510 B.C.

The tondo of this lively cup features a fully-armed warrior moving to the left, a dolphin as his shield blazon. He is framed by a reserved band and a nonsense inscription. On one side of the exterior are two dancing nude satyrs flanking a volute-krater, both playing krotala, the one to the right also holding a thyrsus. A nude youth stands rigid at the right looking on, arms angled forward. The other side has three armed warriors. Both sides have inscriptions in added red below the rim. J.D. Beazley (Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, pp. 148-151) listed a number of cups as Manner of the Epeleios Painter, to which the present cup should be added, most of which he considered possibly “from his hand.”