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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE BELL KRATER ATTRIBUTED TO THE GROUP OF POLYGNOTOS, PROBABLY THE CHRISTIE PAINTER
CIRCA 440-420 B.C.
Side A: possibly depicting Orestes avenging the death of his father by slaying Clytemnestra, Orestes depicted with black curly hair, draped in a chlamys, with striped border pinned at his right shoulder, wearing thonged boots, shown drawing a sword and moving towards the fleeing figure of Clytemnestra, he holds a sword in one hand, a scabbard in the other, the draped Clytemnestra running looking back over her shoulder, gesticulating wildly with her arms, a similar draped woman fleeing in the opposite direction, a wreath in the field
Side B: a woman heavily draped in an himation, her arms underneath it, looking back towards a youth in an himation holding a staff, a similar youth with staff in front
Laurel wreath under the rim, a frieze of meander and crossed squares below, with twin downward sloping handles, small surface repair
11¼ in. (28.5 cm.) high
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