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O14.4 THE CENTAUR NESSUS & DEIANIRA

Centaur Nessus & Deianira | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection British Museum, London
Catalogue No. London 1772,0320.12.+
Beazley Archive No. -
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Kylix
Painter Attributed to the Ambrosios Painter
Date ca. 520 - 510 B.C.
Period Late Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Nessus abducts Heracles' bride Deianira. The centaur is depicted as a half-horse man with the pug nose and bestial ears of a satyr. Deianira rides side-saddle on his caught in the grasping hands of the beast.

ARTICLES

Centaur Nessus