object type / vase shape: attic red figure amphora type B
<p>- description side A: Persephone with sceptre, Hades, Demeter with torch and sceptre; name inscriptions: PHERREPHATTA, PLOUTON
- side B: wreathed youth carrying pointed amphora, wreathed bearded man filling the sacred olive oil from a pointed amphora into an amphora, Athena watching; name inscription (of the man): ALKIMOS
- production place: Athens
- painter: Dinos Painter
- period / date: classical, ca. 430-420 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- findspot: Trachones (Attica)
- museum / inventory number: Piraeus, Archaeological Museum 7341 (formerly Geroulanos collection 343)
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 1154, 38bis
- George Steinhauer, The Monuments and the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, 1998, 39, plate 5
- Susan B. Matheson, Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens, Wisconsin 1996, cat. D43
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