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O18.1 RIVER-GOD & NAIAD-NYMPH

River-God & Naiad-Nymph | Campanian red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection British Museum, London
Catalogue No. London F194
Beazley Archive No. N/A
Ware Campanian Red Figure
Shape Amphora, Neck
Painter Attributed to the Danaid Painter
Date ca 350 - 325 B.C.
Period Late Classical / Early Hellenistic

DESCRIPTION

A Naiad-nymph rides on the back of a River-God. The nymph wears a wreath of flowers and holds a water-jug (hydria) in her hand. The Potamos is depicted with the body and horns of a bull and the head of man.

ARTICLES

Potamoi, Naiads