Skythian archer BM E135

The British Museum, London, United Kingdom

Artist/Maker Epiktetos (signed)
Archer drawing an arrow from his quiver as he turns to shoot at the enemy. Interior from an Attic red-figured kylix, ca. 520/500 BC. From Vulci. Beazley, Attic Red-figured Vase-Painters (1963), 78, 93.
Dimensions Diam. 19.4 cm (7 ½ in.)
Credit line Unspecified

Accession number GR 1837.6-9.59 (Cat. Vases E 135)
Location Main floor, room 14, Greek & Rome
Photographer/Source Jastrow (2006)

Ducrey, P., Guerre et Guerriers dans la Grece Antique (Paris, 1985): 113, FIG.80
Tolle-Kastenbein, R., Pfeil und Bogen im antiken Griechenland (Bochum, 1980): 121, PL.31, 161, PL.52, 167, PL.55C (I, PARTS OF I)
Antike Welt: 9 (1978) 2, 51, FIG.4 (I)
Stele: Tomos eis Mnemen Nikolaou Kontoleontos (Athens, 1980): PL.82
Simon, E. & Hirmer, M., Die Griechischen Vasen (Munich, 1976): PL.96
Revue Archeologique: 1972, 159, FIG.11 (DRAWING)
Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases (London, 1975): FIG.77
American Journal of Archaeology: 81 (1977) PL.3, FIG.2
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 78.93, 1623
Burn, L., and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 83
Koromila, M. (ed.), The Greeks in the Black Sea, From the Bronze Age to the Early Twentieth Century (Athens, 1991): 80, FIG.56 (I)
Tiverios, M.A., Elliniki techni, archaia angaia (Athens, 1996): 121, FIG.91 (COLOUR)
Reschke, E., Die Ringer des Euthymides (Stuttgart, 1990): PL.6.1 (I)
Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 329
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T., and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 169

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