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K14.8 THE PUNISHMENT OF SISYPHUS

Punishment of Sisyphus | Attic black figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich
Catalogue No. Munich J728
Beazley Archive No. 30240
Ware Attic Black Figure
Shape Amphora, Neck
Painter Attributed to the Acheloos Painter
Date -
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

The criminal Sisyphus is condemned to push a rock up a hill in the land of the dead. The gods Hades and Persephone sit on either side of him, the first holding sheafs of wheat and the other a royal sceptre.

ARTICLES

Hades, Persephone