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Xenotimos Painter (signed on opposite side by Xenotimos as potter)
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Attic red-figure stemless cup with scene of the birth of Helen. At left, Klytaimnestra and Tyndareos; at right, Leda; in the center, an altar with an egg and an eagle.
Date Classical, ca. 430–420 B.C.
Medium ceramic
Dimensions height: 5.5 cm (2.1 in); diameter: 16.5 cm (6.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,5.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2386,16.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q49133
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99.539
Place of creation Athens, Greece
Inscriptions ΚΛΥΤΑΙΜΕΣΤΡΑ, ΤΕΥΔΑΡΕΩΣ, ΛΕΔΑ
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