Attic Red-Figure Lekythos

An ancient Attic red-figure lekythos in the manner of the Carlsruhe painter; a male youth, possibly Kephalos, draped with his cloak (chlamys), carries two spears, a sun hat strung about his neck.

Athens, Attica.
Ca. 460 BC.
Height: 7 1/2 in. (19 cm).

The lekythos was used to hold olive oil in antiquity and was often left as a grave offering.

Formerly in the Jerome Eisenberg collection, New York.
Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, vol. XV, (2004); J. Eisenberg,1000 Years of Ancient Greek Vases, (2010), no. 111.
Inv#: 9261
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