Dancing girl (lekythos)

Painter of Palermo 4 (active ca. 450-420 BCE)

Item type:

vessel

Date of creation:

480-460 BCE

Height:

27.9 cm  (11 in.)

Technique / Medium:

painted red figure pottery

Place of creation:

Attica (Ellás)

School:

Attic

Description

A woman in an Ionic chiton with apoptygma, undertied, two cross-belts on breast, bracelets and earrings, dancing to left, playing crotales; her hair flies loosely back, and she wears a fillet.
Late stage of severe style. Purple fillet. Brown folds of colpos and bracelets. Eye in transition stage. Below, pairs of maeanders separated by red cross squares. Round the neck, rays.

Iconclass

43C912
woman dancing alone

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Crotales [2470]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5329