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P27.1 SCYLLA

Scylla | Paestan red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu
Catalogue No. Malibu 81.AE.78
Beazley Archive No. N/A
Ware Paestan Red Figure
Shape Krater, Calyx
Painter Signed by Asteas
Date ca. 340 B.C.
Period Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of Scylla from a painting depicting Zeus carrying Europa across the sea in the guise of a bull.

Scylla is depicted as a mermaid-like nymph with the head, arms and torso of a woman set atop the serpentine tail of a fish. The foreparts of two dogs sprout from her waist and she holds a trident in her hand.

ARTICLES

Scylla

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Europa & the Bull

K1.10 Europa

Thumbnail Pothos

K34.1 Pothos

Thumbnail Adonis & Aphrodite

K10.6 Aphrodite

Thumbnail Triton

P9.1 Triton