object type / vase shape: attic red figure 
<p>- description shoulder: Helena sitting on diphros, holding Eros on her knees, and her sisters, Klytaimnestra suckling Orestes; name inscriptions: E_LENE, ER(OS), PHYLONOE, E_RMIONE, ILAEIRA
- lower belly zone: maenads / bacchants killing Pentheus 
- production place: Athens
- potter: Meidias
- painter: Meidias Painter
- period / date: classical, ca. 430-420 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- findspot: Athens, Kerameikos
- museum / inventory number: Athens, Kerameikos Archaeological Museum 2712
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 1313, 6
- Lucilla Burn, The Meidias Painter, Oxford 1987, cat. M 6
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