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Attic Red-Figure Lidded Skyphoid Fragment

Euphronios, Onesimos"about 490 BC"

The J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States

Fragment of body and edge of lid. Exterior: Theseus (nude, fillet, hair in krobylos) attacking to the right with an axe, reaches forward to clasp the hair on Prokrustes' (bearded, nude, fillet) forehead. A hat (pilos), a sword in its scabbard and a piece of drapery hang in the tree to the right. Both figures are named. On the lid, part of a tree (?).

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  • Title: Attic Red-Figure Lidded Skyphoid Fragment
  • Creator: Attributed to Onesimos (Greek (Attic), active 500 - 480 B.C.), Attributed to Euphronios (Greek (Attic), active 520 - 480 B.C.)
  • Date Created: "about 490 BC"
  • Location Created: Athens, Greece
  • External Link: Learn more about this object.
  • Medium: Terracotta
  • Inscription: ΘEΣEYΣ ("Theseus); Π[ΡOKΡUΣT]EΣ ("P[rokrust]es")
  • Culture: Greek (Attic)
  • Accession Number: 81.AE.214.B.1
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