Restoration of a hammered three-legged lebes (cauldron), after an original work of the 8th century BC. It bears huge ring handles decorated with horse figurines which are bonded by metal rods to the rim of the tripod. Based on its decoration and size, it belongs to group 5.
Archaeological Museum, Olympia. Hellenic Ministry of Culture/Archaeological Receipts Fund.
Tzachou-Alexandri, O. (ed.), Mind and Body: Athletic Contests in Ancient Greece, Hellenic Ministry of Culture-The National Hellenic Commitee I.C.O.M., Athens 1989, p. 216, fig. 104.
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