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Overview: handle oblique left rear

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Summary: Bearded Helios (Sun) in a biga, shown frontal, with his head turned profile to the left, is drawn by winged horses across the sea (?) and sky (indicated by stars?)
Ware: Attic Black Figure, White Ground
Painter: Attributed to the Gela Painter
Attributed By: C.H.E. Haspels
Date: ca. 520 BC - ca. 500 BC
Primary Citation: ABL, 206.5, pl. 23.1
Shape: Lekythos
Beazley Number: 2252
Period: Late Archaic

Decoration Description: The rim is solid black. The neck and body are decorated (from top to bottom) with a narrow black band, a double maeander frieze; a frieze of palmettes alternating up and down, with intervening dots; a frieze of tongues; a frieze of palmettes, also alternating up and down, with intervening dots; an ivy with narrow black bands above and below; the figural scene (Helios); a wavy line black band indicating the sea; and a solid black band with incised rosettes; a reserved band; black at the bottom of the body; and a reserved base.

Other Bibliography: LIMC, 5, pl. 631 (Helios 2); AJA 84 (1980) pl. 40, fig. 14; MDAI 87 (1972) pl. 44.1