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K7.11 THE RETURN OF HEPHAESTUS

Return of Hephaestus | Ionian black figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg
Catalogue No. Würzburg H5352
Beazley Archive No. N/A
Ware Ionian Black Figure
Shape Dinos
Painter -
Date ca 530 B.C.
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Dionysus leads Hephaestus back to Olympus. The divine smith is depicted with shrunken, deformed feet and rides on the back of a donkey. Dionysus stands before him and a Satyr with a drinking horn (rhyton) and wineskin on his back follows behind.

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

ARTICLES

Hephaestus, Dionysus, Satyrs