Overview: handle oblique right rear
Overview: handle right
Overview: handle oblique left rear
Overview: handle front
Overview: handle left
Main panel: head of Poseidon
| Collection: | Yale University Art Gallery |
| Summary: | Poseidon on a winged hippocamp. |
| Ware: | Attic Black Figure |
| Painter: | Attributed to the Athena Painter |
| Context: | Said to be from Tarentum |
| Date: | ca. 500 BC |
| Dimensions: | H. 25.4 cm. |
| Shape: | Lekythos |
| Beazley Number: | 8833 |
| Period: | Archaic |
Condition: The vase has been broken and repaired; all restoration is visible.
Decoration Description: Poseidon astride a winged hippocamp. The hippocamp faces right while Poseidon looks back to the left. He brandishes his trident forward, above the hippocamp's forelegs. Two dolphins swim downward in the field behind the hippocamp's raised tail. Details of the hippocamp, including its bridle, harness, mane, facial stripe, dorsal and pectoral fins, and dots on the wings, are painted in added red. Poseidon's wreath and beard are also in added red. The belly of the hippocamp is in added white, as are dots on Poseidon's chiton. Five black palmettes are painted on the shoulder, with the middle one inverted. At the shoulder is a band of dotted zigzag framed with red stripes, into which the hippocamp's tail fins penetrate.
Collection History:
Purchased for Yale by Rebecca Darlington Stoddard.
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