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M18.1 SPHINX

Sphinx | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Catalogue No. Boston 10.198
Beazley Archive No. 200681
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Kylix
Painter Attributed to Skythes
Date ca. 510 B.C.
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Tondo: The Sphinx is depicted as a winged lion with the head of a woman. She is crowned with a wreath of leaves.

Handles: Decorative Pegasi (see other image).

Side A: Dionysus and a Satyr (not shown).

ARTICLES

Sphinx

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Pegasus

P29.2 Pegasus