Inventory number
GL I.587
Artist
Sophilos
Category
Vessel
Period
Archaic Period
Date
Around 580 BC
Dimensions
Height: 0.027 m to 0.117 m
Length: 0.05 m to 0.095 m
Material
Clay
Location
First Floor Case 8, No 2
Fragments from the body of a lebes decorated in the black-figure technique. They were found in 1883 east of the Parthenon. The Museum has five fragments on display, with one of them preserving the vertically placed signature of the vase-painter Sophilos: ΣΟΦΙΛΟΣ ΕΓΡΑΦΣΕΝ, meaning “Sophilos painted this”. Five remaining fragments from the same vase are kept in the Museum’s storerooms.
The decoration on the lebes is organized into three, at least, zones: on the upper one there is a chain of double palmettes; the middle zone depicts the wedding of Peleus and Thetis with some of the figures being identified by the accompanying inscriptions; and the lower zone is decorated with winged mythical creatures.
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