Kitharist and three women

Euphiletos Painter (active ca. 530-520 BCE) (attributed to)

Item type:

vessel

Date of creation:

ca. 520 BCE

Height:

26.5 cm  (10 7/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

black-figure terracotta

Additional titles

Description

Like many other artists active at the time of the introduction of the red-figure technique in Athens, about 530 BCE, the Euphiletos Painter worked in both the new red-figure and the old black-figure techniques. His name derives from the inscription praising Euphiletos as fair that occurs on several vases decorated by him. It appears on this one as well.
Apollo between two muses; he plucks the strings of kithara (apparently with the thumb of his left hand) and holding the plektron (in the right hand), which is attached to the instrument by a long cord; the kithara has seven strings, one disk at end of crossing bar is visible; the instrument's upper side arms and the holding band are visible; a cover hangs from the instrument; inscription of names.

Iconclass

92B373
Apollo playing the lyre, Apollo Citharoedus

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Kithara [4940]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

3864