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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