English: object type / vase shape: attic red figure stamnos

- description A: Theseus in petasos and chlamys, with 2 spears, pursuing Helena, Peirithoos mounting chariot (horses not shown), Phoiba, Helenas sister, gesticulating; name inscriptions (sic!): ΘΕΣΕΥΣ, ΗΕΛΕΝΕ, ΠΕΡΗΣΟΣ, ΦΟΙΒΑ - B: maenad with thyrsos, dancing satyr, maenad with kantharos - production place: Athens - painter: Polygnotos - period / date: high classical, ca. 450-425 BC - material: pottery (clay) - findspot: Marathon or Athens, Akropolis - formerly in the Kyriazis collection - museum / inventory number: Athens National Archaeological Museum 18063 (formerly in the Akropolis Collection?) - bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 1028.13, 1678, Add (1989) 317 - Susan B. Matheson, Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens, Wisconsin 1996, cat. P 13 - Beazley Archive Pottery Database 213394

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