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K14.1 PERSEPHONE & HADES

Persephone & Hades | Apulian red figure vase painting

DETAILS
Museum Collection	Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich
Catalogue No.	Munich 3297
Beazley Archive No.	N/A
Ware	Apulian Red Figure
Shape	Krater, Volute
Painter	Name vase of the Underworld Painter
Date	ca 330 - 310 B.C.
Period	Late Classical / Early Hellenistic

DESCRIPTION

Detail of the palace of Hades from a painting depicting Heracles' journey to the underworld.

Persephone stands beside the enthroned lord Hades. The god bears a bird-tipped royal sceptre. She wears a crown and carries a flaming, four-headed Eleusinian torch.