Lekythos with Athena Attributed to the Tithonos Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2018

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)


Attributed to the Tithonos Painter


Period: Classical

Date: ca. 480 B.C.

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Terracotta; red-figure

Dimensions: H. 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm); diameter 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1927

Accession Number: 27.122.6


Athena holding spear and helmet

Athena, the warlike protector of Athens, appears alert but serene on this vase. Dressed in a full, richly decorated peplos with a diadem in her hair, she holds her helmet in one hand and her spear, pointed downward, in the other. Her aegis, the protective goatskin ringed with snakes' heads, acts as armor.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/252921