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K42.1 THE JUDGES OF THE DEAD

Judges of the Dead | 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 Judges of the Dead from a painting depicting Heracles' journey to the underworld.

Rhadamanthys, on the right, wears a Phrygian cap and robe, and holds a royal sceptre. Minos enthroned in the centre holds a royal sceptre and is crowned with a wreath (of asphodel?). The elderly Aeacus is seated on a stool to the left, and holds a staff.

This is a drawing of the vase rather than a photograph.

ARTICLES

Judges of the Dead

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Hades & Persephone

K14.1 Hades

Thumbnail Sisyphus & Erinys

T40.5 Sisyphus

Thumbnail Hecate & Cerberus

T16.2 Hecate

Thumbnail Nemesis & Dioscuri

N16.2 Nemesis