Athenian red-figured amphora: Croesus on pyre

Classification

red-figure pottery ; amphora

Culture

Greek (culture)

Dimensions

height: 59,5 cm

Date

500–490 B.C.

Period

Archaic Period (700–480)

Material

clay

Artist

Myson

Iconography

libation bowl (phiale, patera); sceptre (skeptron/sceptrum); torch ; laurel wreath ; Croesus (king of Lydia); pyre ; chair/throne ; libation ; Theseus ; Perithous ; Antiope ; Amazon ; periapt (periamma)

Inscription

Greek (language)

Production place

Attica

Findspot

Vulci

Present location

Paris, Musée du Louvre, Antiquités grecques, étrusques et romaines

Inventory

G 197

ID

Per-6293

See its description at the website of the Musée du Louvre honlapján and the Beazley Archive.

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This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.