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K8.5 ATHENA AT DELPHI

Athena at Delphi | Paestan red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection British Museum, London
Catalogue No. London 1917,1210.1
Beazley Archive No. N/A
Ware Paestan Red Figure
Shape Krater, Bell
Painter Attributed to Python
Date ca. 360 - 320 B.C.
Period Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of the goddess Athena from a painting depicting the purification of Orestes at Delphi.

Athena stands before the tripod and omphalos stone at Delphi with her foot resting on a small plinth. She wears a long robe, red cloak, the scaly aegis breast-guard (fringed with a single serpent head near the thigh), and a plumed helm. She holds a spear in one hand and an Erinys extends a viper-coiled arm above her head.

ARTICLES

Athena

OTHER IMAGES

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