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拍品专文
The objects the attendant to the right holds are most probably a tray for the sacrificial knife covered by a cloth and a bronze vessel for water to be sprinkled on the face of the piglet. The inclusion of a laurel branch in the scene may indicate that this sacrifice takes place in a sanctuary of Apollo.
The Pothos Painter depicted sacrificial scenes on several kraters including one in the Louvre (G496), the British Museum (E504) and the Antikenmuseum in Basel. For the example in the British Museum cf. D. Williams, Greek Vases, London, 1985, p. 109.
The Pothos Painter depicted sacrificial scenes on several kraters including one in the Louvre (G496), the British Museum (E504) and the Antikenmuseum in Basel. For the example in the British Museum cf. D. Williams, Greek Vases, London, 1985, p. 109.