Una nuova coppa del Pittore di Euaion

In 1991, at Poggio La Croce (Radda in Chianti, Siena), a village in inland northern Etruria, was found a fragmentary red-figured cup. The subject of the scenes on the interior and on sides A and B is the same: youths leaving home. On the basis of the stylistic and decorative characteristics, especially the pattern of the handle-palmettes, the kylix was attributed to the Euaion Painter, a follower of Douris, working about 460-450 B.C. Very few Attic black-figured vases have been found in Chianti. At present our cup is the only red-figured vase found in this area. We presume that in this area the Attic figured vases were distributed across the Ombrone river valley, which was in communication with the Etruscan cities of Vetulonia and Roselle and through these with Vulci, where the majority of the Euaion Painter's vases have been found.