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Agrigento: Haimon Painter, black figure lekythos (480 BC)



Agrigento: Haimon Painter lekythos (Mus.Agrigento; photo Athena Review 2004)


This black-figure Attic lekythos, decorated in the manner of the Haimon Painter, was found in Tomb 1452 of the Contrada Pezzino necropolis, excavated in the 1980s.

The painting portrays a meeting or discussion between two standing men, and two seated women. The vessel is dated to 480 BC.


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