pelike
- Museum number
- 1867,0508.1147
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured pelike.
(a) Eros flying with box. Eros, a full-grown wreathed boy, flies to right, holding in both arms a rectangular box ornamented with a star and a pattern of dots. On right a stele on a plinth.
(b) Ephebos in mantle which covers both arms, and wearing fillet, standing to right.
Drawing careless. Purple wreath and fillet. Eye in profile type. Below b, a thin red line; below a, the same, nearly painted out; above each side, a strip of egg pattern.
- Production date
- 440BC-430BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 13.97 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc39)
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1867,0508.1147