File:Python - RFVP 2-240 - birth of Helena from the egg - Dionysos with maenads and satyr - Paestum MAN 21370 - 04.jpg
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English: object type / vase shape: Paestan red figure neck-amphora
- description neck A: siren with bird, tainia and tympanon - body A: upper level: busts of Hermes and Aphrodite, Phoiba and Papposilenos - main scene: Leda running to the altar, on which Helena comes out of the egg, Tynadreus wondering; incised name inscriptions: ⱵΕΡΜΗΣ, ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗ, ΦΟΙΒΑ, ΤΥΒΡΩΝ, ΛΗΔΑ, ⱵΕΛΕΝΗ, ΤΥΝΔΑΡΕΥΣ - neck B: female head in profile - body B: upper level: bust of maenad with tympanon - main scene: young satyr with thyrsos standing before young Dionysos with thyrsos seated, maenad - production place: Poseidonia / Paestum - painter: Python, signed on the base of the altar: ΠΥΘΩΝ ΕΓΡΑΦΕ - period / date: late classical, ca. 340 BC - material: pottery (clay) - height: 63 cm - findspot: C. Andriuolo, near Agropoli - museum / inventory number: Paestum, Museo archeologico nazionale 21370 - 2023 in: Roma, Museo Nazionale Romano, Museo delle Terme di Diocleziano; special exhibition: L’istante e l’eternità. Tra noi e gli antichi - bibliography: Arthur Dale Trendall, The red-figured vases of Paestum, Rome 1987, cat. 2/240 - Please note: Some museums permit photography of their exhibits for private, educational and scientific purposes only. If you intend to use the photo for commercial aims, I would recommend you to contact the museum. |
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