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K1.3 ZEUS & THE GIANT PORPHYRION

Zeus & Porphyrion | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Antikensammlung Berlin
Catalogue No. Berlin F2531
Beazley Archive No. 220533
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Kylix
Painter Signed by Aristophanes
Date ca. 410 - 400 B.C.
Period Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of Zeus battling the giant Porphyrion from a painting of the Gigantomachia (War of the Giants).

Zeus brandishes a lightning-bolt in one hand and holds a royal sceptre in the other. He is crowned with a wreath of laurel or oak and has a cloak draped across his arm. The Gigante is armed with a rock and equipped with a crested helm and a shield painted with a coiling serpent.

This image is a montage of two photos of the vase.

ARTICLES

Zeus, Porphyrion, Gigantes

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