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English: object type / vase shape: Paestan red figure bell-krater

- description side A: Alkmene sitting on the pyre, appealing to Zeus (upper left corner), 2 busts of personified clouds pouring water / rain to extinguish the fire inflamed with torches by Antenor and Amphitryon, Eos in the upper right corner; name inscriptions: ALKME_NE_, ZEUS (written IEYS), ANTE_NO_R; AMPHITRYO_N; AO_S; compare the play „Alkmene“ by Euripides - side B: above: busts of 2 satyrs and Pan; main picture: youthful Dionysos between 2 maenads - production place: Poseidonia / Paestum - painter: Python, signed below the and of ivy on the rim: PYTHO_N EGRAPHE - period / date: late classical, ca. 340 BC - material: pottery (clay) - height: 56.5 cm - findspot: Sant´Agata de´Goti - museum / inventory number: London, British Museum 1890,0210.1 / Cat. Vases F 149 - bibliography: Arthur Dale Trendall, The red-figured vases of Paestum, Rome 1987, cat. 2/239 - CVA London BM 2, plate 1.2 - https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1890-0210-1

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