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The armed Thracian woman is depicted in the interior of a kylix. She holds a spear in her right hand and a richly patterned cloth in her left hand, used probably as a shield. She wears himation and chiton. Tattoos decorate her body. The figure is encircled by meander. It is possible that she is one of the women who killed the famous Thracian musician Orpheus.
Caption Attic red-figure kylix with an armed Thracian woman
Mythic people Cicones (Mythical people), Edonians (Mythical people), Orpheus (Musician)
Type Clay object
Artist/Creator Brygos Painter
Origin Attic workshop
Current position The metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Index number 96.9.37
Dating 480–470 BC
Notes
Beazley, John D. 1963[1942]. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. p. 379, no. 156, Oxford: Clarendon Press.Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1994. Vol. 7: Oidipous-Theseus. "Orpheus," p. 88, no. 65, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
Kylix Brygos Painter, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)
204053, ATHENIAN, NEW YORK (NY), METROPOLITAN MUSEUM, NEW YORK (NY), METROPOLITAN MUSEUM, 96.9.37
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