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Tondo: Scythian archer

Collection: London, British Museum
Summary: Scythian archer
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Painter: Signed by Epiktetos
Context: From Vulci
Date: ca. 510 BC - ca. 500 BC
Dimensions:

H. 0.02 m., D. rim 0.194 m.
Primary Citation: ARV2, 78, 93.
Shape: Plate
Beazley Number: 200621
Region: Etruria
Period: Archaic

Decoration Description:

Interior: a Scythian archer running to left, looking back. He holds his bow with his right hand and draws an arrow with his left from a quiver slung around his shoulder.

He is beardless, and wears a dappled jacket, trousers, and a kidaris or Scythian hat whose flaps hang down onto his chest. Inscription around scene, *E*P*I*K*T*E*T*O*S *E*G*R*A*S*F*E*N ("Epiktetos painted it").

Inscriptions:

*E*P*I*K*T*E*T*O*S *E*G*R*A*S*F*E*N ("Epiktetos painted it")

Sources Used:

Smith 1896, 136

Other Bibliography:

Boardman 1975, fig. 77