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A figure carries dead animals on a narrow vessel.

Lekythos (oil flask): Hunter with Hare and Rabbit

c. 500 BCE - c. 475 BCE

Attributed to The Diosphos Painter

Greek

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.

Terracotta

Classical period, Early

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