object type / vase shape: attic red figure pelike
<p>- description side A: Hephaistos with a pair of forging tongs leaning on a satyr, Dionysos with thyrsos, satyr and maenad; inscription: HEPHASTOS, KALOS (sic) - side B: bald old man in mantle with stick standing between 2 women - production place: Athens - painter: Kleophon Painter - period / date: high classical, ca. 430 BC - material: pottery (clay) - height: 46 cm - findspot: Gela - museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2361 - bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 1145.36 - Susan B. Matheson, Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens, Wisconsin 1996, cat. Kl 42
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