Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask)
Attributed to the manner of the Meidias Painter
The youth Chrysippos with Aphrodite, Eros, and Pompe
Chrysippos, wearing the boots, mantle, and broad-brimmed hat of a traveler, talks with Eros who points toward Aphrodite. Next to the goddess stands a casket, on it a pair of shoes. The woman to the left is unidentified, the other one is Pompe (the personification of procession). Beside her are traces of a ritual basket that would have been depicted in applied clay with gilding. The details of the scene point to a marriage procession.
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