object type / vase shape: attic red figure kantharos type A
<p>- description side A: Theseus fighting the amazon Andromache; name inscriptions: THESEUS, ANDROMACHE
- side B: The amazon Alexandre fighting the Greek hoplite Phorbas; name inscriptions: A(L)EX(A)NDRE, PHORBAS
- production place: Athens
- painter: Alexandre Painter / Group (only two vases attributed, "may be by one hand" (Beazley)
- period / date: classical, ca. 430-410 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 27,8 cm
- findspot: Kameiros tomb F. 56
- museum / inventory number: London, British Museum Cat. Vases E 157
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 1213, 2
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