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K11.3 HERMES & GIANT HIPPOLYTUS

Hermes & Hippolytus | Attic red figure vase painting

DETAILS
Museum Collection	Musée du Louvre, Paris
Catalogue No.	Louvre S1677
Beazley Archive No.	217568
Ware	Attic Red Figure
Shape	Amphora
Painter	Attributed to the the Suessula Painter
Date	ca 400 - 390 B.C.
Period	Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of Hermes battling the Gigante Hippolytus from a painting of the Gigantomachia (War of the Giants). The god grasps the giant by the hair preparing to slay him with his sword. He has a winged petasos cap slung across his shoulder.

This image is montage of two photos of the vase.