Detail of a Lekythos by the Pan Painter in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Oil flask (lekythos) with the hunter Kephalos and his dog
Greek, Early Classical Period, about 470 B.C.
the Pan Painter

Place of Manufacture: Athens, Attica, Greece

Dimensions: Height: 39.2 cm (15 7/16 in.)

Medium or Technique: Ceramic, Red Figure

Classification: Vessels

Catalogue Raisonné: Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 097.

Accession Number: 13.198

Young hunter, standing in front view, right leg in profile to left, face profile to right, wearing tunic, gaiters, chlamys and broad-brimmed petasos, sword in scabbard, holds spear in left. Before him a dog to right. Grafitto under the foot of the vase.

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