Greek
An Attic white-ground lekythos, attributed to the Diosphos Painter, circa 525 - 500 BC
Pottery
Height: 18 cm
Further images
Depicting in black-figure decoration a battle of three warriors holding spears and shields. Nonsense inscriptions in the field, a frieze of dots above, and with strokes at the rim.
Depicting in black-figure decoration a battle of three warriors holding spears and shields. Nonsense inscriptions in the field, a frieze of dots above, and with strokes at the rim.
Provenance
Christos G. Bastis (d. 1999) Collection, New York, before 1971Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 8 May 1976
Private collection, Virginia, USA, acquired in the 1970s, thence by descent
Literature
The Diosphos Painter was an Athenian black-figure painter active in the first half of the 5th century BC. The name derives from the inscription kalos Diosphos (Diosphos is beautiful) on a small neck amphora in Paris, Cabinet des Médailles 219 (BAPD 305526) showing the Birth of Dionysos. The Diosphos Painter worked in white-ground and was mainly a lekythos painter.For another white ground example by the Diosphos painter showing a similar warrior, see C.H.E. Haspels, Attic Black-figured Lekythoi, Paris, 1936, 234.42.
Publications
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 361425.J.D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 249.