![]() She is seated to the front on what may be an altar (a block-like structure with flaring sides), looking at the man go her left. The dog was originally painted in added white of which few traces now remain two additional heads had been added in modern times by scraping away the black glaze of the background and overpainting in added white this modern addition has now been removed.īehind him is a seated woman (Dirke?) wearing a long chiton and himation, her arms all wrapped in her cloak and one of them raised in front of her chest. In his left he presumably originally held a leash (of which not traces remain today) to which was attached the dog that jumps up in front of him towards the herm on the left of the tree. He holds an eight-stringed lyre (the tortoise-shell case once painted white) in his outstretched right hand. On the lower level to the right of the tree is a male figure (Amphion) to the left (his head is lost), wearing a himation and sandals and leaning on a staff (once painted white, few traces remaining). In the centre is a large tree with fruit (or flowers ?) in added white that reaches up to the top of the scene, with figures distributed on two levels. Above the designs, laurel-wreath below the handles, the body of the vase is fluted. It probably depicts a central scene from Euripides' play 'Antiope', the debate between the two semi-divine twins, Amphion and Zethos, over the relative virtues of the 'active' and the 'contemplative' life.ĭesigns red on black ground, with white and purple accessories. ![]()
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