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Attributed to the Potnia Painter
early 6th century BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue
As one of her aspects, the goddess Artemis was mistress of animals, potnia theron. In Archaic representations from all parts of Greece, she appears with her hands firmly gripping a pair of lions, deer, or other animals or birds.