In the obverse side of the vessel, Boreas is seizeing Oreithyia, the daughter of the mythical Athenian King Erechtheus. The ancient colors can be detected on parts of the vase.
Caption Attic lekythos with plastic decoration of Boreas carrying off Oreithyia
Mythic people Oreithyia (heroine) ,Boreas (Deity)
Type Clay object
Origin Attic
Current position The metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Index number 06.1021.207
Dating 4th c. BC
Notes
Βιβλιογραφία:
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 116, 255, pl. 95i, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1986. Vol. 3: Atherion-Eros. "Boreas," p. 139, no. 82b, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1994. Vol. 7: Oidipous-Theseus. "Oreithyia I," p. 67, no. 25b, pl. 50, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
Για το αντικείμενο βλ.: Lekythos 4th century B.C.-Μet Μuseum
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