P34.2 HIPPALEKTRYON

Museum Collection: Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Catalogue Number: Harvard 1954.142
Beazley Archive Number: 300722
Ware: Attic Black Figure
Shape: Cup, siana
Painter: Attributed to the Related to the Griffin-Bird Painter
Date: ca 560 - 550 BC
Period: Archaic

SUMMARY

A youth rides on 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