K22.8 ARTEMIS, PAN & APOLLO
Museum Collection | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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Catalogue No. | Boston 1987.53 |
Beazley Archive No. | N/A |
Ware | Apulian Red Figure |
Shape | Krater, Calyx |
Painter | Attributed to the Darius Painter |
Date | ca 340 - 330 B.C. |
Period | Late Classical |
DESCRIPTION
Detail of the gods Artemis, Pan and Apollo from a painting depicting the exposure of the infant Aegisthus son of Thyestes. Artemis wears a quiver and holds a bow and arrows. The Paniscus (little Pan) holds a conch-shell horn and a bow and quiver of arrows hanging from a club. Apollo is seated with a branch of laurel in the crock of his arm, a swan on his lap and leopard by his side.