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Trefoil Oinochoe (wine pitcher): Two Warriors in Combat

Trefoil Oinochoe (wine pitcher): Two Warriors in Combat

The Athena Painter

Greek

Warrior advances to the right, plunging his spear into a second warrior who falls to the right and looks back. Warriors carry a sword and wear a Corinthian helmet with a red wreath around it, a chitoniskos, greave and a cuirass. Both carry round shields with devices in added red: a tripod the victor's, three rings on the loser's.

Red terracotta, white ground, lustrous black glaze

Classical period, Early

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