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T1.2 THE BIRTH OF ERICHTHONIUS

Birth of Erichthonius | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Antikensammlung Berlin
Catalogue No. Berlin F2537
Beazley Archive No. 217211
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Kylix
Painter Attributed to the Codrus Painter
Date ca 440 B.C.
Period Classical

DESCRIPTION

Gaea (the Earth) hands her newborn son Erichthonius over to the foster-care of the goddess Athena. Gaia is depicted as a crowned woman partially risen from the earth. Athena, wearing the snake-trimmed aegis cloak, receives the infant.

ARTICLES

Gaea, Athena

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