T16.6B HECATE
Museum Collection | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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Catalogue No. | New York 28.57.23 |
Beazley Archive No. | 214158 |
Ware | Attic Red Figure |
Shape | Krater, Bell |
Painter | Attributed to the Persephone Painter |
Date | ca. 440 B.C. |
Period | Classical |
DESCRIPTION
Detail of Hecate from a painting depicting the return of Persephone from the underworld.
Hecate gazes back over her shoulder at Persephone, heralding her return with a pair of torches.