Terracotta Lekythos Attributed to the Pharos Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2009

Terracotta Lekythos (oil flask)
Greek, Attic, black-figure, ca. 550 BC
Attributed to the Pharos Painter
Two women wrapped in one cloak

Accession # 75.2.10

Lekythoi were traditionally placed as offerings in tombs or on grave monuments. The elongated shape of this example is typical of the earliest form. The subject of two women wrapped in one mantle was favored by the Pharos Painter (pharos is a word for "cloak"). There are also contemporary representations of two males with one cloak. The meaning may be sexual.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.