Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask)
Painter of Oxford 1920
ca. 470–460 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art
Woman seated with lyre The presence of a bird, evidently listening raptly, and the emphatically large chair as well as the frontal face suggest that the subject here is more than an Athenian lady making music. It is difficult to tell whether she should be thought of as an inspired mortal, a poetess, or a muse.
- Artist
- Painter of Oxford 1920
- Date
- ca. 470–460 BCE
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek, Attic
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1906
