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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED HYDRIA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE LEAGROS GROUP, CIRCA 520-500 B.C.
The body with the wedding procession of Peleus and Thetis, the groom wearing a striped chlamys, driving his veiled bride in a quadriga, holding a goad and the reins in his hands, the procession with a female figure at the far right facing left, her face hidden behind the horses, her hands raised up before her, three female figures at the center facing the couple, the middle one crowned by a radiate diadem, perhaps Hera, one with her hand raised before her, Apollo to the left with his kithara, wearing a striped chlamys, a female attendant in a striped himation standing behind the chariot; framed by a double band of ivy on each side; the shoulders with Herakles wrestling the Nemean lion, the hero nude with his quiver and clothing suspended above, flanked by four figures facing them, a draped female figure to the left with a spear and Herakles' nephew Iolaus with the hero's club over his left shoulder, Hermes to the right wearing his characteristic winged petasos and sandals, his caduceus in his left hand, and Athena clad in her high-crested helmet, a peplos and snakey aegis, a spear in her left hand; a band of tongues above; rays above the foot, details in added red and white
20 in. (50.8 cm.) high
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