AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED LEKYTHOS
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED LEKYTHOS

ATTRIBUTED TO THE GELA PAINTER CIRCA 500 B.C.

细节
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED LEKYTHOS
ATTRIBUTED TO THE GELA PAINTER
CIRCA 500 B.C.
With an excerpt from the "Escape from the Cave of Polyphemos," featuring two of Odysseus' companions, each tied to the underside of a large ram, the men both bearded, shown clutching the rams, their feet extending beyond their tails, their mantles and scabbards hanging below, a tree between with a bird perched on the spreading branches above each ram, details in added white, including the ram's underslung horns; with a band of net-pattern below, a band of ribbon above, palmettes on the shoulders, vertical lines above
12½ in. (31.7 cm) high
来源
Schmidt Collection, Switzerland, 1950s-1960s.

拍品专文

For another lekythos with the same subject, also by the Gela Painter, see no. 16 in Buitron, et al., The Odyssey and Ancient Art.