Attic Red-Figure Pelike

Achilles Painter

445–440 B.C.

Terracotta

J. Paul Getty Museum

Side A depicts a bearded man, nude except for a cloak draped across his left arm, clutching a staff in his right hand, and a nude youth playing hoops (Zeus and Ganymede). The scene is framed above and below by a band of unbroken running meander enclosing saltire squares with a dot between each pair of arms. Side B shows a bearded, himation-clad man resting on a staff in profile to the left. The figure is framed above and below by a simple meander. There is a palmette at the base of each handle. Ars Antiqua, Luzern. Lagerkatalog 4, December 1969, no. 43, ill.