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Squat Lekythos (oil flask): Warriors; Lions

Shoulder: A right facing siren flanked by two lions. Body: A scene with three (?) young warriors with spears, a woman, and a horseman. The warrior farthest to the left is nude, his cloak draped over his left arm, holding his spear in his right hand. He looks at a woman also facing right. A horseman rides his horse toward a figure of whom only the leg and right arm, with the tip of his spear, are preserved. Farthest to the right, a cloaked warrior stands holding his spear. Beneath handle: Written “Taleido eimi” (I belong to Taleides)

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of David M. Robinson

The Taleides Painter (Artist)

c. 550 BCE 6th century BCE Archaic period -555 -545

Greek

Title: Squat Lekythos (oil flask): Warriors; Lions

Description:

Shoulder: A right facing siren flanked by two lions.

Body: A scene with three (?) young warriors with spears, a woman, and a horseman.

The warrior farthest to the left is nude, his cloak draped over his left arm, holding his spear in his right hand.

He looks at a woman also facing right.

A horseman rides his horse toward a figure of whom only the leg and right arm, with the tip of his spear, are preserved.

Farthest to the right, a cloaked warrior stands holding his spear.

Beneath handle: Written “Taleido eimi” (I belong to Taleides).

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