object type / vase shape: attic black figure lekythos
<p>- description: draped bearded man leaning on staff, throwing ball, 3 pairs of naked youths sitting one on another (ephedrismos) trying to catch the ball; inscription: ΚΕΛΕΥΣΟΝ (give the order!)
- production place: Athens
- painter: Edinburgh Painter
- period / date: late archaic, ca. 500 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 32.4 cm
- findspot: Gela
- museum / inventory number: Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 1890.27 / V 250
- bibliography: John Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases, London 1974, fig. 239.1-2
- Beazley Para 217.2
- Emilie Haspels, Attic Black-Figured Lekythoi, Ecole Française d'Athènes, Paris, 1936, 216.2
- Beazley Archive Pottery Database 380847
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