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| Keywords: Hasselmann Painter - Kalpis with Youth with Spears - Walters 4880 - Side A.jpg This red-figure kalpis depicts a youth possibly Theseus pursuing a woman He advances right holding two spears horizontally in his left hand at waist level With his right he reaches toward her She runs right looking around holding both hands up and out in fright He wears traveller's sandals fillet and chlamys and has a petasos hanging down his back from his neck She wears a girded peplos and her hair is held in place by ribbons This youth with spears pursuing a woman is tentatively identified as Theseus because of two vases on which a similar youth is so labeled ca 440 BC Classical terracotta with handles cm 23 8 21 1 h x diam ; at rim cm 9 4 diam ; at mouth cm 7 diam ; at foot cm 8 9 diam accession number 48 80 28246 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome cat no 181 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Attica Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek red-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum Hasselmann Painter Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update Hydriai | ||||
