DescriptionKodros Painter ARV 1268 2 Eos and Kephalos - birth of Erichthonios (01).jpg
English: object type / vase shape: attic red figure cup (kylix)
- description: interior: Eos carrying off the young Kephalos; name inscriptions: HEO_S, KEPHALOS
- exterior side A: Kekrops, Gaia / Ge, rising from the ground, gives the baby Erichthonios to Athena, Hephaistos, Herse; name inscriptions: KEKROPS, GE, ATHE_NAIA, (E)PHAISTOS, ERSE
- exterior side B: Athenian heroes watching the scene: Aglauros, Erechtheus, Pandrosos, Aigeus and Pallas; name inscriptions: (AG)LAUROS, ERECH(TH)EUS, PAND(ROSOS), (AI)GEUS, PALAS
- production place: Athens
- painter: Kodros Painter
- period / date: classical, ca. 440-435 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 12 cm; diameter: 31,2 cm
- findspot: Tarquinia
- museum / inventory number: Berlin, Altes Museum (Antikensammlung) F 2537
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 1268, 2
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