English: object type / vase shape: attic red figure amphora type A

- description side A: young hector arming for battle, between his elderly father Priamos and his mother Hekabe; inscriptions: PRIAMOS, HEKTOR, HEKABE; EGRAPHSEN EYTHYMIDES HO POLIO - side B: 3 bearded men dancing at the komos; inscriptions: ELEOPI. TELES, ELEDEMOS KOMARCHOS; HOS OUDEPOTE EUPHRONIOS; translation of the last inscription: (this painting is so good) as Euphronios (a compeeting vase painter) never (could have painted it) - production place: Athens - painter: Euthymides, son of Polios (signed on A) - period / date: late archaic, ca. 510-500 BC - material: pottery (clay) - height: 60 cm - findspot: Vulci - museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2307 - bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 26, 1

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