Close-up view of side A: three herms, the center one shown frontally, and ...

Close-up view of side B: A girl, wearing a short-sleeved chiton with a lon...

All fragments, comprising sides A (left) and B (right)

Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre
Summary: Side A: Three hermsSide B: A girl with a sacrificial basket on her head, and a youth reaching for a hydria
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Painter: Attributed to the Pan Painter
Attributed By: J.D. Beazley
Date: ca. 480 BC - ca. 460 BC
Primary Citation: ARV2, 555.92; Para, 386; Beazley Addenda 2, 258
Shape: Pelike
Period: Early Classical

Decoration Description: The extant fragments depict, on side A, three herms, the center one shown frontally, with the others turned profile towards it; on side B, a girl, wearing a short-sleeved chiton with a long overfold, advancing profile to the right, holding a sacrificial basket on her head, while a nude youth, behind her (shown in 3/4-view to the left) reaches down to a hydria.

Sources Used: Beazley 1974a, 13, nos. 49-50