object type / vase shape: attic black figure volute-krater, the „François Vase“
<p>- description: compendium of Greek mythology, all figures and many objects with name inscriptions:
-Trojan myth: the gods coming to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis; chariot race at the funerary games of Patroklos; Ajax carrying to dead body of Achilles
- Kalydonian boar hunt
- Theseus on Crete with Ariadne
- centauromachy
- return of Hephaistos, led back to Olympos by Dionysos, with satyrs and maenads
- Pygmies fighting cranes
- potnia theron
- production place: Athens
- potter: Ergotimos (signed)
- painter: Kleitias (signed)
- period / date: high archaic, ca. 575-565 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 70 cm
- findspot: Chiusi
- museum / inventory number: Firenze, Museo Archaeologico Nazionale 4209
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, 77.1
- John Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases, London 1974, fig. 46.1-8
- Beazley Archive Pottery Database 300000
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