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P14.4 FEAST OF THE GODS

Feast of the Gods | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Antikensammlung Berlin
Catalogue No. Berlin F2278
Beazley Archive No. 200108
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Kylix
Painter Name vase of the Sosias Painter
Date ca 500 B.C.
Period Late Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Side A: Detail of the central figures in a painting depicting the feast of the gods and reception of Heracles on Olympus. A winged goddess, either Iris or Hebe, pours nectar from an oinochoe jug. Zeus and Hera are seated to her left, and Poseidon and Amphitrite to her right, on stools draped with panther-skins. Amphitrite nurses a large fish in her arms.
Other figures in the scene (not shown) are Aphrodite, Ares, Dionysus and Ariadne.
Side B: Heracles enters Olympus. The other figures in this scene are Demeter, Hestia, the Horae, Hermes, Apollo and Athena (see other images).

ARTICLES

Zeus, Hera, Hebe, Iris,Poseidon, Amphitrite

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Heracles

K11.5 Heracles

Thumbnail Hestia & Demeter

K13.1 Demeter

Thumbnail Horae

K17.1 Horae