object type / vase shape: Chalkidian hydria
<p>- description A: 6 hoplites fighting; name inscriptions: ΑΝΤΑΙΟΣ, ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΣ, ΠΟΛΥΔΟΡΟΣ, FΑΧΥΣ, ΜΕΔΟΝ
- B (under the vertical handle): 2 sphinxes turned outside, looking back inside
- A-B lower zone: animal frieze: 3 pairs of goat and panther confronted
- production place: Rhegion (?)
- painter / group: Painter / Group of the Inscribed Amphorai / Inscription Painter
- period / date: ripe archaic, ca. 550 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 35.6 cm
- findspot: unknown
- museum / inventory number: London, British Museum 1865,0722.15 / cat. vases B 75
- bibliography: Andreas Rumpf, Chalkidische Vasen, Berlin, Leipzig 1927, cat. 9
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