File:Chigi Painter - CVPAP 32 A 3 - battle of phalanxes - chariots and riders - judgement of Paris - hunting scenes - Roma MNEVG 22679 - 15.jpg

English: object type / vase shape: protocorinthian olpe

- decoration technique: black polychrome and early black figure - note how the painter altered his sketch (drawn with precise incision) in the lion hunt scene: the hunter does not any longer stem his hand in his hip, but raises the hand in order to stab the lion with his spear - description body: many figured friezes: - floral ornaments - 2 phalanxes of hoplites meeting in battle, youth playing auloi - animals (white on black) - chariot and riders; judgement of Paris: Paris (= Alexandros), Hermes (kerykeion), [Hera], Athena, Aphrodite: name inscriptions: ΑΛ[ΕΞΑΝΔ]ΡΟΣ, ΑΘΑΝΑΙΑ, ΑΦΡΟΔ[ΙΤΕ]; lion hunt - foxes and hare hunt - production place: Corinth - period / date: (middle /) late protocorinthian, ca. 650-630 BC - painter: Chigi Painter - material: pottery (clay) - height: 26.2 cm - findspot: Veii, tumulo di Monta Aguzzo (Formello), scavi 1881 - museum / inventory number: Roma, Museo nazionale etrusco di Villa Giulia 22679 - bibliography: Darrell Arlynn Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period, Berkeley 1988, 32, A.3

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