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K20.4 MUSE ON HELICON

Muse on Helicon | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich
Catalogue No. Munich S80
Beazley Archive No. 213977
Ware Attic Red Figure (White Ground)
Shape Lekythos
Painter Attributed to the Achilles Painter
Date ca 445 B.C.
Period Classical

DESCRIPTION

A Muse, probably Calliope, is seated on the rocks of Mount Helicon playing a lyre. The name of the mountain in inscribed on the vase. A small magpie sits at her feet and to her left stands a second Muse (see other image).

ARTICLES

Muses, Calliope

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Muse

K20.4B Muse