ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF COPENHAGEN 4223, CIRCA 330-320 B.C.

The Painter of Copenhagen 4223 specialized in volute-kraters that featured mourners around a funerary naiskos on their obverses and around a stele on their reverses. Single figures are normally set within the naiskoi, sometimes with a squire or, as here, a horse. Contrary to his contemporaries and anticipating those who followed, the painter made greater use of added red, as seen on the chiton of the bearded man on the present vase, and set more unusual heads within more elaborate florals on the obverse necks, such as Pan, as seen here (see A.D. Trendall, The Red-figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily, p. 87). In addition to the red chiton, our warrior wears a white himation, boots and a pilos helmet. The baldric for his sword drapes diagonally over his right shoulder. He holds the reins of his horse in one hand and a spear in the other. Two four-spoked chariot wheels fill the space to the right, one on the ground, one suspended from the rafters.