English: object type / vase shape: Paestan red figure calyx-krater

- description side A: Europa riding side-saddle on the white bull (Zeus) to the left over the sea represented by Skylla, a Triton and marine animals; Pothos flying over Europa´s head; upper left corner: Zeus, Krete(?), Hermes; upper right corner: Eros, Adonis(?), Aphrodite; name inscriptions for all figures except for Eros - side B: upper level: busts of 2 maenads, papposilen, maenad and Pan; main picture: maenad with wreath, youthful Dionysos with thyrsos and satyr with thyrsos running to the right - production place: Poseidonia / Paestum - painter: Asteas, incised signature on A in the handle zone over the floral ornament band - period / date: late classical, ca. 350 BC - material: pottery (clay) - height: 71,4 cm - findspot: Saticula - museum / inventory number: Montesarchio, Museo Archeologico Nazionale del Sannio Caudino (before its „repatriation“ in: Malibu 81 AE 78) - bibliography: Arthur Dale Trendall, The red-figured vases of Paestum, Rome 1987, cat. 2/129

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