• Date: ~480 BCE Artist: Douris (Painter) Medium: Terracotta, Red-Figure Origin: Athens, Greece Drawing after an Attic red-figure kylix by Douris painter, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Based on the design from a small, delicate drinking cup that is undecorated except for the interior, depicting Artemis, goddess of the hunt, within the tondo, or circular field. A quiver on her back, she holds a bow and two arrows in her left hand, and in her right hand she extends a torch. An inscription added in dark red that runs from in front of her to behind her head states that one Hippodamas is 'handsome.'

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