AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED LEKYTHOS
circa 470-450 b.c.
With a departure scene, the warrior armed in a crested helmet, the cheek-guards raised, wearing a short chiton and carrying a large round shield, a lion in black as the blazon, an elaborately patterned apron with a zigzag edge hanging below, a spear angled over one shoulder, a phiale in his right hand held out before him, the woman to the left pouring wine (in added red) into the phiale from the oinochoe that she holds in her right hand, the woman clad in a chiton and a mantle, her hair bound in a sakkos patterned with dots, a curling tendril hanging down from behind her ear, a band of stopt meander below, a band of meander above, with palmettes on the shoulders, and a band of dotted egg-pattern above, graffito on the underside of the foot
12 11/16 in. (32.22 cm) high