K15.3 CHIRON & ACHILLES

DETAILS Museum Collection Musée du Louvre, Paris Catalogue No. Louvre G3 Beazley Archive No. 200435 Ware Attic Red Figure Shape Amphora Painter Attributed to Oltos Date ca 520 B.C. Period Late Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Side: The centaur Chiron holds the boy Achilles in one hand and in the other a branch hung with a hare. The centaur is clothed in a chiton and is depicted with the full body of a man--including legs and feet--with the torso and rear legs of a horse attached to his rump.

Neck: Nereid Nymphs holding fish (see other image).

ARTICLES

Chiron

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