T24.2 NIKE & THE CHARIOT OF ZEUS
Museum Collection | Musée du Louvre, Paris |
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Catalogue No. | Louvre S1677 |
Beazley Archive No. | 217568 |
Ware | Attic Red Figure |
Shape | Amphora |
Painter | Attributed to the the Suessula Painter |
Date | ca 400 - 390 B.C. |
Period | Late Classical |
DESCRIPTION
Detail of Nike and Zeus from a painting depicting the Gigantomachia (War of the Giants). Nike, the winged goddess of victory, drives the four-horse (quadriga) chariot of Zeus. The god, standing beside her, holds a lightning bolt in one hand a royal sceptre in the other.