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Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany
Artist/Maker Unknown
Wrestling of Peleus and Atalanta for the funerary games of king Pelias.
In background, the price of the duel: the skin and the head of the Calydonian boar.
Names inscriptions are written in the alphabet of Chalcis in Euboea.
Side A from a chalcidian black-figured hydria, c. 550 BC.
Dimensions H. 46 cm
Accession number Inv. 596
Location Room 2
Photographer/source User:Bibi Saint-Pol, own work, 2007-02-09
See also Side B
See also : Greek Mythology. Paintings, Drawings
Ancient Greece
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