Birth of Athena | Zeus | Hera | Athena | Poseidon | Amphitrite | Apollo | Eileithyia | Ares | Dog | Dipinto | Siren | Animal | Nike
Inscription Language
Greek Language
Description
Amphora, Type A. A. Birth of Athena L. to r., male figure, Apollo (with kithara), Zeus with Athena standing on his thigh, female figure (perhaps Eileithyia, goddess of childbirth), Ares with dog. Nike stands beneath Zeus's thron. Bird with female head above (Siren). B: Zeus and Hera, both seated; with Poseidon, Amphitrite, Ares and others" L. to r., female figure (Amphitrite?), Poseidon, Zeus and Hera, Ares, a female figure; overlapping male and female figures. Seated sphinx beneath Zeus and Hera's throne. Nonsense inscriptions in field.
The Perseus Project. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/artifactBrowser?object=Vase&field=Collection&value=University+Museum%2C+University+of+Pennsylvania.
Beazley, John D. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Second Edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. See: p. 128
Clement, Paul A. "Geryon and Others in Los Angeles." Hesperia: the Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 24, no. 1. (1955): 1-24. See: pp. 9-10, pl. 6
