Stamnos with Eos and Two Youths

Description His lyre tumbling to the ground, the youth Tithonus flees the amorous goddess Eos. She grabs his neck while fingering her mantle in the traditional gesture of a demure bride. This theme was a popular subject for red-figure vessels from the early to mid 5th century BC. This "stamnos" (wine container) belongs to a class of vessels which has a low foot in the form of a ring. There are seven known "stamnoi" of this type. All have the same size and proportions and were probably fashioned by the same potter.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
7/27/1987	Treatment	x-ray

Exhibitions

• Pandora's Box: Women in Classical Greece. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel. 1995-1996.
• Déjà Vu? Recurrence. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2007-2008.
• Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville; San Diego Museum Of Art, San Diego; Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), New York. 2009-2011.

Provenance Robert Garrett Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1951, by purchase.

Inscriptions [Transcription] KAΛOΣ; [Transliteration] KALOS

Credit Museum purchase, 1951