P9.1 TRITON

DETAILS
Museum Collection	The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu
Catalogue No.	Malibu 81.AE.78
Beazley Archive No.	N/A
Ware	Paestan Red Figure
Shape	Krater, Calyx
Painter	Signed by Asteas
Date	ca. 340 B.C.
Period	Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of Triton from a painting depicting Zeus carrying Europa across the sea in the guise of a bull.

Triton has a serpentine fish-tail in place of legs and holds a conch-shell trumpet and staff in his hands.