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Attic Red-Figure Lekythos

Carlsruhe Painter470–460 B.C.

The J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States

They put down a stone and throw at it from a distance with balls or pebbles. The one who fails to overturn the stone carries the other, having his eyes blindfolded by the rider, until, if he does not go astray, he reaches the stone, which is called a dioros.

 ‑‑ Pollux 

Children in antiquity played ephedrismos, the game the ancient Greek writer Pollux describes above and which is pictured on this lekythos. Although this looks like a scene of children at play, the two figures represented here are actually a satyr‑‑identified by his beard and the hint of a tail‑‑and a short‑haired woman called a maenad. Both satyrs and maenads were followers of Dionysos, the god of wine, vegetation, and the theater.

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  • Title: Attic Red-Figure Lekythos
  • Creator: Carlsruhe Painter
  • Date Created: 470–460 B.C.
  • Location Created: Athens, Greece
  • Physical Dimensions: 24.5 cm (9 5/8 in.)
  • Type: Lekythos
  • External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
  • Medium: Terracotta
  • Terms of Use: Open Content
  • Number: 71.AE.444
  • Culture: Greek (Attic)
  • Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
  • Creator Display Name: Carlsruhe Painter (Greek, active 475 - 450 B.C.)
  • Classification: Vessels (Containers)
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