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Fragment of a Red-Figure Bell-Krater or Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Female Head (Aglauros)
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Fragment of a Red-Figure Bell-Krater or Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Female Head (Aglauros)

Nausicaa Painter (also known as Polygnotos III; Greek, Attic, active c. 460–440 BCE), artist · c. 460–450 BCE · ceramic

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Broken from the upper wall of a large mixing vessel, this fragment shows the head of a woman wearing an earring and an elaborate ribbon in her hair. A faint inscription identifies her as Aglauros, a daughter of Kekrops, the mythical first king of Athens. Although worshipped in a shrine near the Acropolis, Aglauros appears quite rarely in Athenian art, usually with her sisters at the birth of Erichthonios, a future king.

Cleveland Museum of Art’s own description
Credit lineFragment of a Red-Figure Bell-Krater or Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Female Head (Aglauros), c. 460–450 BCE. Attributed to Nausicaa Painter (also known as Polygnotos III; Greek, Attic, active c. 460–440 BCE). Ceramic; overall: 6.8 x 7.5 cm (2 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Frances W. Ingalls, 1992.369
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