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- A pelike (Ancient Gr****: πελίκη) is a one-piece ceramic container similar to an amphora. It has two open handles that are vertical on their lateral aspects...
- Pelike with actors preparing is a two-handled jar (pelike) depicting actors preparing for a performance. It is a piece of red-figure pottery measuring...
- Orestes, Electra and Hermes at the tomb of Agamemnon, lucanian red-figure pelike, c. 380–370 BC, Louvre (K 544)...
- A pelike was a ceramic container that the Gr****s used as storage/transportation for wine and olive oil. As seen in the picture on the right, it had a large...
- including: ****us beheading the sleeping Medusa, obverse of a terracotta pelike (jar) attributed to Polygnotos (vase painter) (c. 450–440 BC), collection...
- Heracles fighting the servants of the Egyptian King Busiris, Attic Pelike, c. 470 BCE...
- the caduceus Iris with the caduceus in detail from an Attic red-figure pelike, middle of fifth century BC (Agrigento, Sicily) Coin from Sardis (Turkey)...
- include female clothing such as high boots and a chiton. Ceramic Athenian Pelike. Phiale Painter. Ancient Gr****. Around 430 BCE. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston...
- (with Nike) Lekythos (with Artemis on a white ground) Pelike (with ****us and gorgoneion) Pelike (with furniture-carrier) The Agrigento Painter was another...
- Heracles in the Hesperides garden. Side A from an Attic red-figure pelike, 380–370 BC. From Cyrenaica....