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T42.1 CECROPS

Cecrops | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Antikensammlung Berlin
Catalogue No. Berlin F2537
Beazley Archive No. 217211
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Kylix
Painter Attributed to the Codrus Painter
Date ca 440 B.C.
Period Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of King Cecrops of Athens from a painting depicting the birth of Erichthonius. The earth-born king is depicted as a man with the tail of a serpent in place of legs. He is crowned with a wreath of laurel and holds a royal sceptre in his hand.

ARTICLES

Cecrops

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Birth of Erichthonius

T1.2 Erichthonius