An ancient Attic red-figure lekythos in the manner of the Carlsruhe painter. A youth, possibly Kephalos, draped with his cloak, carries two spears, a sun hat strung about his neck.
Athens, Attica.
Ca. 460 BC.
The lekythos was used to hold olive oil in antiquity and was often left as a grave offering.
Formerly in the Jerome Eisenberg collection, New York.
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