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O26.2 ZEUS & AEGINA

Zeus & Aegina | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Catalogue No. Boston 01.8077
Beazley Archive No. -
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Lekythos
Painter Attributed to the Achilles Painter
Date ca 450 - 440 B.C.
Period Classical

DESCRIPTION

Zeus pursues the nymph Aegina. The god is crowned with a wreath of olive-leaves and holds a royal, lotus-tipped sceptre in one hand.

This image is a montage of several photos of the vase.

ARTICLES

Zeus, Aegina