Persephone & Hades - Ancient Greek Vase Painting (original) (raw)

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Persephone & Hades | Attic red figure vase painting

DETAILS

Museum Collection British Museum, London
Catalogue No. London 1847,0909.6
Beazley Archive No. 217212
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Kylix
Painter Attributed to the Codrus Painter
Date ca. 430 B.C.
Period Classical

DESCRIPTION

Tondo: Hades and Persephone recline on a couch in the underworld. The god holds a cornucopia (horn of plenty) and plate, and the goddess a small item, probably a pomegranate seed.

Sides: The feast of the gods of Olympus (see other image).

ARTICLES

Hades, Persephone

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