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M16.1 GRIFFIN

Griffin | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich
Catalogue No. Munich 2605
Beazley Archive No. 200708
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Kylix
Painter Attributed to the Euergides Painter
Date ca. 515 - 500 B.C.
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Detail of one of a pair of decorative Griffins painted below the handles of the vase.

The seated Griffin has the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. Its tongue protrudes from its mouth in a screech.

ARTICLES

Griffins