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ERANOS ARCHIVE

38. The Night Sea Journey of the Sun

GODS AND MYTHS

Sirens

SOCIAL LIFE

Ships and boats / Sailing ships and boats / Ancient ship types

Further details

Eranos Archive 38/5. Produced in Athens. Found in Vulci (Canino) in circa 1833. It shows one side of a drinking vessel or a kylix, showing a ship with boar-shaped bow or ram and bow painted with apotropaic ophthalmos (eye) "Formerly in the Canino, Durand, Beugnot, Hope, Rondel collections."

Artist or creator

Nikosthenes Painter (active c525-475 BC)

Date

circa 525 BC - 520 BC

Location

Paris, Musée du Louvre (Entry number: NIII 2628 Other inventory number: S 1291 Catalogue number: F 123)

Notes on photograph

Collection

Eranos Archive presented by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn

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