Black-Figure White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Horseman, Horse between Warriors, Dog
attributed to Edinburgh Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 505–485 BCE)
c. 500 BCE
- Medium
- ceramic
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Overall: 32.4 cm (12 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Greek, Attic
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Two armed warriors, each wearing a crested helmet and holding a spear and shield, flank a mounted horseman, who leads another horse. The warrior at right reaches up with one hand to the head of the second horse, raising the question of how he still holds his spear. Below, a dog twists to scratch itself and look back, its right hind foot apparently resting on one of the warrior’s.
