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Greek Archaeology Images

Description
Artist

Suessula Painter
Description
English: Marsyas playing a pair of pipes. Athena and Apollo stand to the right, reminding the legends of the invention of the pipe (Athena) and the musical contest lost by the satyr (Apollo). Athenian red-figured column-krater, ca. 410–400 BC.
Français : Marsyas jouant de la flute double. Athéna et Apollon se tiennent à droite, rappelant les légendes de l'invention de la flute (Athéna) et du concours musical où le satyre fut écorché (Apollon). Cratère à colonnes athénien à figures rouges du Peintre de Suessula, vers 410-400 av. J.-C.
Date
Dimensions

Unspecified
Current location
British MuseumL

Main floor, room 20, Greek & Rome
Accession number

GR 1772-3.20-323 (Cat. Vases E 490)
Credit line

Mastrilli and Hamilton collections
Source/Photographer

Bibi Saint-Pol (2006, 22 November)

Greek Vase Images

Greek Archaeology, Images

Ancient Greece

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