Apulian red-figure lekythos
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Apulian red-figure volute-crater

Apulian red-figure volute krater: the sacrifice of Iphigeneia

Classification
red-figure pottery; volute krater
Culture
Magna Graecian
Dimensions
height: 69.5 cm, width: 43.4 cm
Date
370–355 B.C.
Period
Classical Period (480–323)
Material
clay
Artist
Circle of Ilioupersis Painter
Iconography
offering scene; Agamemnon; Iphigenia; Apollon; Artemis; deer; altar; sceptre (skeptron/sceptrum); knife; spear; laurel; ivy leaf; egg-and-dart motif; palmette/palmette frieze; griffin; tongue pattern; meander; Medusa-head; bucranium; shield; mirror; shepherd's staff (pedum/lagobolon)
Production place
Apulia
Present location
London, British Museum, Department of Greece and Rome
Inventory
1865,0103.21
ID
Per-6689
References
Trendall–Cambitoglou 1978, 204, no. 104; Kahil et al.: Iphigeneia, in LIMC V (1990), 712–712, no. 11

See the object on the website of the British Museum.

Trails
THE TROJAN EPIC CYCLE; Preparing for the war
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