object type / vase shape: protoattic hydria
<p>- description neck: man (clapping his hand, leading the dance) and 7 women holding twigs at round dance
- handle zone side A: bearded man and 2 bearded sphinxes to the right
- handle zone side B: 2 lions raising one front-paw to the right
- production place: Athens
- painter: Mesogeia Painter
- period / date: early protoattic, ca. 700 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 41 cm
- findspot: surroundings of Pankration (near Athens)
- museum / inventory number: Berlin, Altes Museum (Antikensammlung) 
- bibliography: Giulia Rocco, La ceramografia protoattica: pittori e botteghe (710 - 630 a.C.), Rahden/Westfalen 2008, cat. ID Me9
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