Inventory number
ΕΑΜ 15116
Artist
The Painter of Acropolis 606
Category
Vessel
Period
Archaic Period
Date
570-560 BC
Dimensions
Height: 0.455 m
Rim diameter: 0.465 m
Diameter: 0.73 m
Material
Clay
Location
First Floor Free-standing Case 37
Lebes decorated in the black-figure technique. It was found in 1886 east of the Parthenon, was pieced together and restored. The vase is covered on the interior with shiny, black glaze. Animals and Sirens decorate its rim, whereas the rest of the decoration on the exterior surface is organized in eight zones alternating pictorial scenes and floral motifs.
The main zone presents eight quadrigas and hoplites on foot, running towards the body of a fallen warrior. Perhaps he is the deceased Achilles whose body is claimed by both Greeks and Trojans. The middle zone depicts mounted warriors fighting mounted Scythians archers. Lower on the vase there is a zone of animals and Sirens and finally on the rounded bottom busts of horses and lions are arranged around a circle.
This impressive vase initially received the inventory number 606 and that is why the unknown Athenian vase-painter was named “Painter of Acropolis 606”. The same vase-painter is sometimes called “Painter of Athens 606” and many amphoras depicting horses have been also attributed to him. His workmanship, characterized by the serious expression on the figures and the effort to create monumental compositions, presents a lot of similarities with that of Kleitias.
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