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P13.5 NEREID NYMPHS

Nereids | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Catalogue No. Boston 1972.850
Beazley Archive No. 5958
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Krater, Calyx
Painter Attributed to the Niobid Painter
Date ca 460 - 450 B.C.
Period Early Classical

DESCRIPTION

Upper register: Detail of two fleeing Nereids from a painting depicting Peleus' capture of the sea-goddess Thetis. The pair wear sakkos head-scarfs and one holds a small dolphin or fish.
Lower register: Boreas pursues Oreithyia (see other image).

ARTICLES

Nereids

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Peleus & Thetis

P13.5B Thetis

Thumbnail Chiron & Nereid

K15.4 Chiron

Thumbnail Boreas & Oreithyia

T28.2 Boreas