Atalanta Peleus Staatliche Antikensammlungen 596

Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany

Artist/Maker Unknown

Wrestling of Peleus and Atalanta for the funerary games of king Pelias.

In background, the price of the duel: the skin and the head of the Calydonian boar.

Names inscriptions are written in the alphabet of Chalcis in Euboea.

Side A from a chalcidian black-figured hydria, c. 550 BC.
Dimensions H. 46 cm

Accession number Inv. 596

Location Room 2

Photographer/source User:Bibi Saint-Pol, own work, 2007-02-09

See also Side B

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