English: object type / vase shape: attic red figure amphora type A

- description side A: Peirithoos, the friend of Theseus, looking back; Korone, a friend of Helena, trying to help Helena; Theseus carrying off Helena; the name inscriptions of Korone and Helena are interchanged, either unintentionally, or as a humorous allusion to an Athenian hetaira - side B: Helenas father Priamos and two running women (Helena´s friends or sisters?) - production place: Athens - painter: Euthymides - period / date: late archaic, ca. 510 BC - material: pottery (clay) - height: 57,5 cm - findspot: Vulci - museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2309 - bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 27, 4

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