T22.1 THE CREATION OF PANDORA
Museum Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom
Catalogue Number: Oxford V 525
Beazley Archive Number: 275165
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Shape: Krater, volute
Painter: Attributed to Recalls Kensington Class
Date: ca 475 - 425 BC
Period: Classical
SUMMARY
Pandora is born out of the earth, moulded by the craftsman god Hephaistos. She is depicted crowned and veiled, with hands raised. Above her flies an Eros (winged love god). The god beside her is either Hephaistos, moulding her with his sculptor's mallet, or Epimetheus, who receives her as a bride as he tills the earth. Two other gods, Zeus and Hermes, one holding a royal sceptre and wearing an olive wreath, the other with a herald's wand (kerykeion), winged cap and boots, witness the scene.
ARTICLES Pandora, Hephaistos, Epimetheus, Hermes, Zeus
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