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P29.3 CHIMERA, PEGASUS & BELLEROPHON

Chimera, Pegasus & Bellerophon | Attic black figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Musée du Louvre, Paris
Catalogue No. Louvre A478
Beazley Archive No. 300597
Ware Attic Black Figure
Shape Cup, Siana
Painter Attributed to the Heidelberg Painter
Date ca 560 - 550 B.C.
Period High Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Side A: Bellerophon rides the winged horse Pegasus into battle against the Chimera. The monster is depicted as a lion with a serpent-headed tail and the foreparts of a goat rising from its back.
Side B: Pandareus and the Golden Hound (not shown).
Tondo: Heracles and the centaur Nessos (not shown).

ARTICLES

Chimera, Pegasus, Bellerophon

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Chimera

M14.2 Chimera