1. Name the shape of the vase and give its function.

Shape = 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?], function = 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] flask

2. When was the vase made?

c. 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] BC

3. Describe the scene depicted on the vase.

This is an 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] scene of a woman and her maid. The woman, on the right, wearing brown 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] over her yellow 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?], seems to be directing her maidservant, who is carrying a grey painted 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?]. Both have their hair 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] on top of the head.

450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] of the maid's head hangs a small lekythos and a tall, conical headscarf, indicating the scene is 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?].

4. What does the inscription say and what is its purpose?

The inscription above the woman reads: "Deiopathes son of Alkimachos is 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?]". This inscription appears to have no relevance to the painted scene, but was a common idea at the time. It was not the name of the 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] for whom this lekythos was designed, but the name of a well-450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] figure of the time. Similar to a graffito, it was intended to be part of the work as a whole.

5. How does the Achilles Painter depict figures on his vases and what may have inspired him?

The Achilles Painter, one of the finest painters of the 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] period, was a student of the 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] Painter: he has simple, separate 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?], and in 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] the figures are slender, their faces long-450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?].

Expressions are 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?], with gestures few and sober. Facial features appear 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] rather than painted - due perhaps to the Classical style of portraying figures as more 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?]like and removed from the human world - hence the severity.

6. Describe the decoration techniques used by the Achilles Painter to decorate this vase. Give examples from the vase which illustrate those techniques.

Outlines of both figures were painted in dilute 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] before firing, while the brighter matt colours (green, mauve, yellow, brown) of the 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?], which were not derived from glaze and so couldn't be fired, were added 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] the pot was removed from the kiln. Maid's tunic colour has 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] leaving us with the sketch lines underneath an apparently see-through dress.

About the end of the 5th century matt black outlines for 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] were introduced and the colour palette was also 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?]. However the application of the new colours 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] firing meant they would not 450afterBerlincalmcasketchitonClassicalclothingcoileddeceaseddisappearedeverydayextendedfiguresglazegodhandsomehimationindoorsknownlastLeftlekythosnosedoilprofilesculpted[?] and often disappeared completely.