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Attributed to the Achilles Painter
Youth and woman at a tomb
The woman is tying a fillet around the funerary monument. The youth carries a fillet over his shoulder. Is one to make an association with the stele?
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Title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Artist:
Attributed to the Achilles Painter
Period: Classical
Date: ca. 450–440 BCE
Culture: Greek, Attic
Medium: Terracotta; white-ground
Dimensions: H.: 18 3/8 in. (46.7 cm)
Classification: Vases
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1908
Object Number: 08.258.16
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