Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Mercury / Attributes / Petasos
Mercury / Attributes / Winged sandals
Neptune / Various activities / Riding in a chariot
Neptune / Attributes / Trident

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Flora and Fauna / Fabulous animals / Winged horse

Further details

Athenian black-figure hydria. [left to right] Neptune/Poseidon, Amphitrite[?], Dionysus/Bacchus[?], Hermes/Mercury.

Artist or creator

Attic

Date

6th century BC (second half)

Location

Compiegne, Musée Antoine Vivenel (inv. 1056)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Eduard Gerhard, Auserlesene griechische Vasenbilder, hauptsächlich etruskischer Fundorte, 1. Götterbilder, Berlin 1840, pp. 41-46, plate 10; Johannes Adolf Overbeck, Griechische Kunstmythologie: besonderer Theil. Leipzig 1871-1889, Atlas, plate XI, no. 24

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Web resources

Gerhard (digitised version)
Beazley Archive

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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