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H29.1 THE BIRTH OF HELEN

Birth of Helen | Apulian red figure vase painting

DETAILS
Museum Collection	Provincial Archaeological Museum of Bari
Catalogue No.	-
Beazley Archive No.	N/A
Ware	Apulian Red Figure
Shape	Krater, Bell
Painter	Attributed to the Painter of Dijon
Date	ca 375 - 350 B.C.
Period	Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of Helen hatching from an egg from a painting depicting a scene from a comedy-play. Helen's foster parents, Tyndareus and Leda, stand nearby (not shown) or, more accurately, actors wearing comedy-masks playing the parts.