The Muses on Mount Helicon | Greek vase, Athenian red figure white-ground lekythos

K20.4B MOUSA

Museum Collection: Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany
Catalogue Number: Munich S80
Beazley Archive Number: 213977
Ware: Attic Red Figure (White Ground)
Shape: Lekythos
Painter: Attributed to the Achilles Painter
Date: ca 445 BC
Period: Classical

SUMMARY

Detail of a Mousa dressed in a red cloak facing one of her sisters who is seated on a rock playing the lyre. The mountain is named "Helikon" on the vase.

ARTICLES

Mousai

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