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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Metropolitan Museum... > Greek Antiquities > Greek Art of the Fifth... > Terracotta calpis
Terracotta calpis
Artist : Anonyme


Date : approx. between 370 and 350 B.C.

Material : Terra cotta
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1906)
Figures rouges
Poseidon and Anymone
Item 54 on 81
Greek Antiquities
(Calpis)

Vitrine : V01

Area related
Attique (Greece)


Description   

Danaos, a mystical king, had fifty daughters whom he sent out to find water during a great drought. One of them, Amymone, was accosted by a satyr but rescued by the sea god, Poseidon, who sought her favors for himself. In return, he struck the earth with his trident and created a spring. The vase shows Poseidon and Amymone seated either side of Eros, the god of love, and a waterbird.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art :
Greek Art of the Fifth and Early Fourth Centuries B.C.
Terracotta calpis
Woman and Eros
Calpis
Figures rouges
Peintre Shuvalov
approx. from 480 to 420 B.C.
Terracotta calpis
Eros approaching seated woman
Calpis
Figures rouges
Anonyme et Peintre Shuvalov
near 430 B.C.
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