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N1.1 NYX, HESPERUS & SELENE

Nyx, Hesperus & Selene | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Catalogue No. St Petersburg ST1798
Beazley Archive No. 217506
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Krater, Calyx Fragments
Painter Attributed to NR: Pronomos Painter
Date ca 425 - 375 B.C.
Period -

DESCRIPTION

The gods of night--Nyx, Hesperus and Selene--travel across the sky. Nyx, goddess of the night, leads the procession with a hand raised. She is followed by Hesperus, god of the evening star, who is depicted as a head encircled by the shining aureole of his star. Selene, goddess of the moon, appears last, riding side-saddle on a horse with her billowing robe forming the shape of the crescent moon.

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Nyx, Hesperus, Selene