Black-figure mastos, ca. 530 BC, with combat scenes now housed at the Walters Art Museum [500×494]
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Black-figure mastos, ca. 530 BC, with combat scenes now housed at the Walters Art Museum [500×494]
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On the front, a soldier whose nudity signifies heroic status advances against two warriors dressed in short tunics; two heralds watch from either side. On the back, a nude warrior confronts a clothed one in a similar scene. Beneath the horizontal handle stands a siren, a mythical creature with a woman’s head and a bird’s body, whose powers included knowledge of the outcome of battles. [Museum link](https://art.thewalters.org/object/48.223/)