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K20.4B MUSE ON HELICON

Muse on Helicon | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich
Catalogue No. Munich S80
Beazley Archive No. 213977
Ware Attic Red Figure (White Ground)
Shape Lekythos
Painter Attributed to the Achilles Painter
Date ca 445 B.C.
Period Classical

DESCRIPTION

A Muse dressed in a red cloak faces one of her sisters who is seated playing a lyre (see other image). A small magpie is perched on the rock between them. The scene is labelled "Helikon"--the sacred mountain of the Muses.

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