Hippalectryon, a cock-horse | Greek vase, Athenian black figure kylix

P34.1 HIPPALEKTRYON

Museum Collection: University Museums, University of Mississippi, Oxford,
Mississippi, USA
Catalogue No.: Mississippi 1977.3.241
Beazley Archive No.: 302433
Ware: Attic Black Figure
Shape: Kylix
Painter: Attributed to the Xenokles Painter
Date: ca 550 BC
Period: Archaic

SUMMARY

A youth rides the back of a Hippalektryon, a creature with the foreparts of a horse, and the back legs, wings and tail of a rooster.

ARTICLES

Hippalektryon

 
 
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