DescriptionOreithyia Painter ARV 496 2 Boreas and Oreithyia (06).jpg
English: object type / vase shape: attic red figure pointed amphora
- description side A: Herse (daughter of Kekrops, friend of Oreithyia), rushes to help; Boreas (the winged god of the north-wind) holds Oreithyia tightly; Pandrosos (daughter of Kekrops, friend of Oreithyia) flees; name inscriptions: (HE)RSE, BORAS, OREITHYA, PANDROSOS
- side B: another girl runs to her father Kekrops (chiton, mantle, sceptre); Aglauros (daughter of Kekrops, friend of Oreithyia) runs to Erechtheus (father of Oreithyia) touching pleadingly his chin; name inscriptions: KEKROS, AGLAUROS, ERECHSES; inscription: KALOS
- production place: Athens
- painter: Oreithyia Painter
- period / date: early classical, ca. 475 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 58 cm
- findspot: Vulci
- museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2345
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 496, 2
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