Terracotta hydria (water jar). Culture: Greek, South Italian, Lucanian. Dimensions: H. 18 1/16 in. (45.9 cm). Date: ca. 420-400 B.C..
Two women presenting gifts to two youths
The Amykos Painter was a prolific artist who invented a repertoire of stock figural types for his less ambitious works. The youths here are characterized as athletes by their nudity, the gifts of a fillet and wreath, and the strigil (scraper) held by the rightmost figure.