K7.2 THE RETURN
OF HEPHAISTOS
Museum Collection: Harvard
University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Catalogue No.: Harvard 1960.236
Beazley Archive No.: 201683
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Shape: Calyx krater
Painter: Attributed to the Kleophrades Painter
Date: ca 500 BC
Period: Late Archaic
SUMMARY
Detail of Hephaistos from a painting depicting the god's return to Olympos. He rides on the back of a donkey with a smith's hammer resting on his shoulder. The god is surrounded by the Satyroi attendants of Dionysos, who leads Hephaistos back to heaven.
ARTICLES Hephaistos, Dionysos, Satyroi
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