Attic Red-Figure Lekythos

Oionokles Painter

about 470 B.C.

Terracotta

J. Paul Getty Museum

Red-figure lekythos with Artemis shooting a bow to the right. She wears a long chiton tied at the waist and leaving her right shoulder bare and her right breast partially exposed. The garment has a patterned border which runs down its right side. A fillet encirlcles her head, and her unbound hair falls down her back in curled locks. She draws an arrow with her right hand, and holds a bow and two spare arrows in her left. The top of her quiver is visible over her right shoulder. She stands on a meander border with her left foot forward in profile and her right foreshortened. The same meander pattern with alternating dotted crosses ru