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P12.4C NEREID RIDING DOLPHIN

Nereid Riding Dolphin | Apulian red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu
Catalogue No. Malibu 86.AE.611
Beazley Archive No. N/A
Ware Apulian Red Figure
Shape Pelike
Painter Near the Gravina Painter
Date ca 425 - 401 B.C.
Period Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of a Nereid riding side-saddle on the back of a dolphin, bearing a breastplate from a painting depicting the delivery of the armour of Achilles.

ARTICLES

Nereids

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Thetis Riding Hippocamp

P12.4A Thetis

Thumbnail Thetis Riding Hippocamp

P12.4B Thetis

Thumbnail Nereid Riding Cetus

P12.4D Nereid

Thumbnail Nereids Riding Dolphins

P12.4E Nereids