Boston 13.198 (Vase)
Hunter with dog.
- ID:
- aa_4372
- Beazley Number:
- 206356
- Type:
- Vase
- Date:
- ca. -470 — ca. -460
- Period:
- Early Classical
- Context:
- From Gela
- Region:
- Sicily
- Painter:
- Attributed to the Pan Painter
- Dimensions:
-
H. 0.392 m.
- Ware:
- Attic Red Figure
- Shape:
- Lekythos
Date Description
Said to have been found with Boston 13.199, another lekythos by a painter in the Mannerist Group (Caskey & Beazley, 2, 54).
Decoration Description
On front, a hunter with a dog. The young hunter moves to left, looking round. He holds a javelin in his right hand with two fingers in the loop, ready to cast it, and in his left hand another javelin. He also holds a short club (lagobolon) used both for throwing and for dispatching game. A lean hound is beside him, and stands with head, tail, and one foreleg raised, his ears pricked, at attention. The hunter wears a short chiton, a chlamys, shoes, stockings, and a petasos, and has a sword in a scabbard.
Beazley suggests that the hunter may be Kephalos, pursued by Eos, because of the similarity to a fragment of a skyphos from the Acropolis in Athens, which is an almost exact replica of the hunter, but here pursued by Eos.
- Collection:
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Citations and Bibliography
C & B No. 97
