Birth of Pegasus - Ancient Greek Vase Painting (original) (raw)

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P23.18 THE BIRTH OF PEGASUS

Birth of Pegasus | Attic bilingual vase painting

DETAILS

Museum Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Catalogue No. New York 06.1070
Beazley Archive No. 203101
Ware Attic Bilingual (White Ground)
Shape Lekythos
Painter Attributed to the Diosphos Painter
Date ca 500 - 450 B.C.
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

The winged horse Pegasus is birthed from the neck-stump of the decapitated Gorgon Medusa. The hero Perseus wings away with her head tucked inside his kibisis sack.

ARTICLES

Perseus, Medusa, Pegasus