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M16.4 GRIFFIN & ARIMASPIAN (GRYPOMACHY)

Griffin & Arimaspian | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Catalogue No. Boston 01.8092
Beazley Archive No. -
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Kylix
Painter Attributed to the Jena Painter
Date C4th B.C.
Period Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

A mounted Arimaspian warrior battles a half-lion, half-eagle Griffin. The tribesman wears a full Scythian body-suit and brandishes an axe.

ARTICLES

Griffins, Arimaspians