English: object type / vase shape: attic red figure neck-amphora with twisted handles

- description side A: Melousa holding auloi, lyra of horse-shoe-form hanging in the background, Terpsichore sitting in a chair playing harp (magadis), Mousaios standing, laurel wreath in the hair, holding a lyra (chelys) and a long staff with laurel leaves at the top; name inscriptions: MELELOSA, TERPSICHORA, MOSAIOS - side B: woman standing between two draped youths leanding on their sticks - production place: Athens - painter: Peleus Painter - period / date: classical, ca. 440 BC - material: pottery (clay) - height: 58,5 cm - findspot: Vulci - museum / inventory number: London, British Museum 1847,0909.7 Cat. Vases E 271 - bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 1039, 13 - Susan B. Matheson, Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens, Wisconsin 1996, cat. PE 16

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