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P34.3 HIPPALECTRYON

Hippalectryon | Attic bilingual vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa
Catalogue No. Tampa 86.49
Beazley Archive No. 201509
Ware Attic Bilingual
Shape Kylix
Painter Attributed to the Painter of the Vatican Horseman
Date ca 530 - 520 B.C.
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

A warrior equipped with a shield and spear balances on the back of a Hippalectryon, a creature with the foreparts of a horse and the back legs, wings and tail of a rooster.

ARTICLES

Hippalectryon