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Black-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Pan Presenting Hare to Woman
attributed to Asteas/Python Workshop (South Italian, Paestan, active c. 360–320 BCE)
c. 330–320 BCE
- Medium
- ceramic
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 6.1 cm (2 3/8 in.); Overall: 25.7 x 12.9 cm (10 1/8 x 5 1/16 in.); Diameter of foot: 8.1 cm (3 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- South Italian, Paestan
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This round-bodied oil vessel, produced in Paestum, belongs to a small group of vessels decorated with black figure in the second half of the fourth century BC, long after the technique had previously fallen out of fashion. Unlike most such vessels, which are smaller and feature just a single figure (often a woman or bird), this one shows a more complex and colorful scene. The goat-legged god Pan perches on a branched tree trunk, holding his syrinx (panpipe) and a hare. Facing him, her hands on the trunk, is a draped woman, perhaps a nymph or the moon goddess Selene.
