Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask)

Meidias Painter

ca. 410 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

The youth Chrysippos with Aphrodite, Eros, and Pompe Chrysippos, wearing the boots, mantle, and broad-brimmed hat of a traveler, talks with Eros who points toward Aphrodite. Next to the goddess stands a casket, on it a pair of shoes. The woman to the left is unidentified, the other one is Pompe (the personification of procession). Beside her are traces of a ritual basket that would have been depicted in applied clay with gilding. The details of the scene point to a marriage procession.

Artist

Meidias Painter

Date

ca. 410 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Attic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1911