| DATE | 440 - 435 BC |
| AUTHOR | the Eretria painter - Athens, Attica, Greece |
| MEDIA | Ceramic - red figure wine cup (kylix) |
| SIZE | 9,5 x 25,4 x 33,9 (3" 3/4 x 10" x 13" 1/4) |
| LOCATION | France - Paris - Musée du Louvre |
| NOTES | The tondo represents a seated man, LINOS, unrolling a book roll, which is twisted and thus shows only part of its writing. Facing him a nude youth, MOSAIOS, holding up an opened set of tablets. Both figures are reading. Behind the youth a chest, whence presumably the roll has come. Whatever the exact mythological relation between Linos and Musaios, the scene is basically a school scene cloaked in mythical garb, with the teacher preparing to check Musaios' recitation. |
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