Terracotta lekythos (oil flask) ca. 440 B.C. Attributed to the Achilles Painter Seated youth and womanSeated on a stool, the young man hands what appears to be a piece of fruit to the woman standing before him. An oinochoe (jug), a mirror, and a sakkos (snood) are suspended in the background. It is impossible to determine whether this is a vignette of daily life, as depicted by Douris, the Villa Giulia Painter, and many other artists of the mid and later fifth century B.C. It may instead be a funerary representation as depicted on grave stelai; the youth would be the deceased.. Terracotta lekythos (oil flask). Greek, Attic. ca. 440 B.C.. Terracotta; white-ground. Classical. Vases
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