THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Ceramics | Location | Southern Italy | Lucania | Paestum
1. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
Alcmene appealing to Zeus against Amphitryon.
Red-figured bell-krater. Paestum.
Attributed to the Python Painter.
Clay.
Ca. 360—320 BCE.
Inv. No. 1890,0210.1.
London, British Museum.
2. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
Alcmene appealing to Zeus against Amphitryon.
Red-figured bell-krater. Paestum.
Attributed to the Python Painter.
Clay.
Ca. 360—320 BCE.
Inv. No. 1890,0210.1.
London, British Museum.
3. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
Dionysiac scene.
Red-figured bell-krater. Paestum.
Attributed to the Python Painter.
Clay.
Ca. 360—320 BCE.
Inv. No. 1890,0210.1.
London, British Museum.
4. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
Jason and the Golden Fleece.
Red-figured volute krater (side A). Paestum.
Ca. 340—330 BCE.
Attributed to the Apulianising Group.
Inv. No. 82126.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
5. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
Dionysos and maenad in cart drawn by Papposilenos.
Red-figured bell-krater. Paestum.
Ca. 360—350 BCE.
Attributed to Python.
Inv. No. 1989.11.4.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
6. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
Fliacic scene: Zeus in love adventure under the window of Alcmene, assisted by Hermes.
Red-figured bell-krater (side A). Paestum.
Ca. 350—340 BCE.
Attributed to the Painter Asteas.
Inv. No. 17106.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Gregorian Etruscan Museum.
7. CERAMICS. Magna Graecia.
Red figure krater used as an ossuary urn.
380—370 BCE.
Inv. No. 36332.
Syracuse, Regional Archaeological Museum “Paolo Orsi”.