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K7.6 THE WINGED CHAIR OF HEPHAESTUS

Winged Chair of Hephaestus | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection (not known where), Berlin
Catalogue No. Berlin F2273
Beazley Archive No. 201595
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Kylix
Painter Attributed to the Ambrosios Painter
Date ca 525 B.C.
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Hephaestus returns to Olympus from his exile on the shores of the river Oceanus riding a winged chariot-car or chair. The chair is decorated with the heads, wings and tail of a crane. The god carries a double-headed smith's mallet.

ARTICLES

Hephaestus