object type / vase shape: attic black figure lekanis
<p>- description interior: whirligig
- exterior A-B: 2 animal friezes, in the middle of the upper one: Achilles receives helmet, shield and spears from his mother Thetis, between 2 confronted sphinxes ...
- production place: Athens
- painter: KX Painter, Komast Group
- period / date: early archaic, ca. 580-570 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- findspot: Ialysos (the offerings have been burned at the funeral)
- museum / inventory number: Rhodos, Archaeological Museum 5008
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, 24.1
- John Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases, London 1974, fig. 20
- Beazley Archive Pottery Database 300279
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