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T92.2 PYGMIES BATTLING CRANES

Pygmies Battling Cranes | Attic black figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection National Archaeological Museum of Florence
Catalogue No. Florence 4209
Beazley Archive No. 300000
Ware Attic Black Figure
Shape Krater, Volute
Painter Signed by Kleitias
Date ca 570 - 560 B.C.
Period High Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Pygmies, mounted on goats and armed with slings, battle a flock of cranes.

"The clamour of cranes goes hight to the heavens, when the cranes escape the winter time and the rains unceasing and clamorously wing their way to streaming Okeanos, bringing the Pygmaioi men bloodshed and destruction: at daybreak they bring on the baleful battle against them." - Homer, Iliad 3.3

This is a drawing of the vase rather than a photograph.

ARTICLES

Pygmies

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