Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Brygos Painter
ca. 490–480 BCE
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
H. 12 7/8 in. (32.7 cm) diameter 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm)
Classification
Vases
Culture & Period
Greek, Attic · Archaic
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1909
Accession Number
09.221.43
Tags
HelmetsSpearsAthenaOwls
About the Artist
Brygos Painter
The Brygos Painter is one of the most gifted and prolific red-figure vase painters of ancient Athens, active in the early fifth century BCE during one of the most dynamic periods of Greek artistic development. Like most ancient Greek vase painters, he is known to us not by his personal name but by a conventional scholarly designation — in this case derived from the potter Brygos, whose name appear...