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L11.1 HERMES & ARGUS PANOPTES

Hermes & Argus Panoptes | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Catalogue No. Hamburg 1966.34
Beazley Archive No. 352495
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Amphora, Neck
Painter Attributed to the Eucharides Painter
Date ca 490 B.C.
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Side A: Hermes slays the eye-covered man Argus Panoptes with his sword. To the right stands the heifer-shaped maiden Io.
Side B: The death of Actaeon (not shown).

ARTICLES

Argus Panoptes, Hermes, Io