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Source Description
This red-figure kalpis depicts a youth (possibly Theseus) pursuing a woman. He advances right, holding two spears horizontally in his left hand at waist level. With his right he reaches toward her. She runs right, looking around, holding both hands up and out in fright. He wears traveller's sandals, fillet and chlamys, and has a petasos hanging down his back from his neck. She wears a girded peplos, and her hair is held in place by ribbons.This youth with spears pursuing a woman is tentatively identified as Theseus because of two vases on which a similar youth is so labeled.
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Document identity
localId
28246
label
Kalpis with Youth with Spears
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obj
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object
citationUrl
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3
Source metadata
id
28246
sourceUrl
contentType
object
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normalized
title
Kalpis with Youth with Spears
description
This red-figure kalpis depicts a youth (possibly Theseus) pursuing a woman. He advances right, holding two spears horizontally in his left hand at waist level. With his right he reaches toward her. She runs right, looking around, holding both hands up and out in fright. He wears traveller's sandals, fillet and chlamys, and has a petasos hanging down his back from his neck. She wears a girded peplos, and her hair is held in place by ribbons.This youth with spears pursuing a woman is tentatively identified as Theseus because of two vases on which a similar youth is so labeled.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [cat. no. 181]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 440 BCE (Classical)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ceramics
kalpides
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3
pageCount
3
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
23.8
height
21.1
dimensionsRaw
with handles: 9 3/8 x 8 5/16 in. (23.8 x 21.1 cm) (h. x diam.);at rim: 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm) (diam.);at mouth: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm) (diam.);at foot: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm) (diam.)
Source extras
cul
Greek
style
Attic
med
terracotta; red figure
creator_ids
3638
collection_ids
GRC
exhibition_ids
none
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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cd8213277ec2b024
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no
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no
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2
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photo
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7109789987b3ae12
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no
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no
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3
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photo
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a65f24d203889651
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no
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no