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Attic Red-Figure Lidded Skyphoid Fragment
Euphronios, Onesimosabout 490 B.C.
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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Details
- Title: Attic Red-Figure Lidded Skyphoid Fragment
- Creator: Onesimos, Euphronios
- Date Created: about 490 B.C.
- Location Created: Athens, Greece
- Physical Dimensions: 10 × 19 × 8 cm (3 15/16 × 7 1/2 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Type: Plastic vase
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Terracotta
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 81.AE.214.B.1
- Culture: Greek (Attic)
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
- Creator Display Name: Attributed to Onesimos (Greek (Attic), active 500 - 480 B.C.) Attributed to Euphronios (Greek (Attic), active 520 - 480 B.C.)
- Classification: Vessels (Containers)
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