Lekythos (oil flask): Hunter with Hare and Rabbit
c. 470 BCE
Artists
Description
White-ground lekythos. Scene depicts a young hunter who wears only a chlamys and walks to the right with a pole on his left shoulder from which are a dead hare and rabbit. With his right hand he touches the fox while looking back over his right shoulder. Above him is an inscription: KALOS ("beautiful one") A pair of addorsed, black palmettes frame the figure on both sides; above the figure, a meander patterns continues around the body. The shoulder is decorated with a chain of five black-figure palmettes. The vessel is intact except for a break at the spout.
Dimensions
H. 20.8 x Dia. 7 cm (8 3/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
Provenance
[Athens, 1897] sold; to Joseph C. Hoppin, Pomfret, CT ( 1899-1925), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1925.
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