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T16.1 HECATE & GIANT CLYTIUS

Hecate & Clytius | Attic red figure vase painting

DETAILS
Museum Collection	Musée du Louvre, Paris
Catalogue No.	Louvre S1677
Beazley Archive No.	217568
Ware	Attic Red Figure
Shape	Amphora
Painter	Attributed to the the Suessula Painter
Date	ca 400 - 390 B.C.
Period	Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of Hecate battling the Gigante Clytius from a painting of the Gigantomachia (War of the Giants). The goddess sets giant's hair aflame with a torch. She wears a knee-length skirt, Thracian vest and hunter's boots, and holds a pair of torches and a bow. The naked giant also brandishes a torch.

This image is montage of two photos of the vase.