English: object type / vase shape: attic red figure cup type B (kylix)

- description interior: Achilles tending his friend Patroklos, wounded by an enemy arrow, sitting on his shield; exterior A and B: Herakles is introduced to the assembly of the gods on mount Olympus - production place: Athens - potter: Sosias (signed on the foot) - painter: Sosias Painter (identification with Euphronios or Euthymides much discussed) - period / date: late archaic, ca. 500 BC - material: pottery (clay) - height: 10 cm; diameter 32,1 cm - findspot: Vulci, Camposcala - museum / inventory number: Berlin, Altes Museum (Antikensammlung) F 2278 - bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 21, 1 Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer and others, catalogue to the special exhibition (Berlin 1991 ) „Euphronios. Der Maler“, Milano 1991, cat. 59

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