M18.8 OIDIPOUS & THE SPHINX

Museum Collection:  Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Catalogue No.:  Louvre G417
Beazley Archive No.: 214483
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Shape: Stamnos
Painter: Attributed to the Menelaus Painter
Date: ca 475 - 425 BC
Period: Classical

SUMMARY

The hero Oidipous in traveller's cloak and cap, ponders the riddle of the Sphinx who sits high on a plinth.

ARTICLES

Sphinx