K14.2 PERSEPHONE & HADES
Museum Collection | The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu |
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Catalogue No. | Malibu 77.AE.13 |
Beazley Archive No. | N/A |
Ware | Apulian Red Figure |
Shape | Krater, Volute |
Painter | Attributed to the White Saccos Painter |
Date | ca 320 B.C. |
Period | Late Classical / Early Hellenistic |
DESCRIPTION
Detail from a painting of Orpheus in the underworld. Hades and Persephone sit enthroned on a couch. The god holds a bird-tipped staff and the goddess a four-headed Eleusinian torch. To their right stands Hecate dressed as a huntress with an aureole and two torches.