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K6.7 THE DEATH OF ACTAEON

Death of Actaeon | Lucanian red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
Catalogue No. Harvard 1960.367
Beazley Archive No. N/A
Ware Lucanian Red Figure
Shape Nestoris
Painter Attributed to the Choephoroi Painter
Date ca 350 - 340 B.C.
Period Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

Side A1: Actaeon is transformed into a stag--indicated by the pair of antlers--by the goddess Artemis and torn apart by his own hounds. The Naiad-nymph of the spring Gargathie sits watching.
Side A2: Phrixus and Helle rescued by the golden-fleeced ram (see other image).
Side B: Orestes is pursued by the Erinyes (see other image).

This image is a montage of several photos of the vase.

ARTICLES

Artemis, Gargathie

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Gargathie

O19.1 Gargathie

Thumbnail Phrixus, Helle & the Ram

M29.1 Phrixus

Thumbnail Orestes & Erinyes

T40.2 Orestes