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Classical Images – Greek Pegasus Classical images – Greek Pegasus Red-figure kylix crater Attic Red-figure kylix Triptolemus Painter, c. 460 BC attr Skythes, c. 510 BC Edinburgh, National Museums of Scotland Boston, MFA (source: theoi.com) Faliscan black pottery kylix Athena with Pegasus on shield Black-figure water jar (Perseus on neck, Pegasus with Etrurian, attr. the Sokran Group, c. 350 BC Athenian black-figure amphora necklace of bullae (studs) and wings on feet, Centaur) London, The British Museum (1842.0407) attr. Kleophrades pntr., 5th C BC From Vulci, attr. Micali painter, c. 510-500 BC 1 New York, Metropolitan Museum of ART (07.286.79) London, The British Museum (1836.0224.159) Classical images – Greek Pegasus Pegasus Pegasus Attic, red-figure plate, c. 420 BC Source: Wikimedia (Rome, Palazzo Massimo exh) 2 Classical images – Greek Pegasus Pegasus London, The British Museum Virginia, Museum of Fine Arts exh (The Horse in Art) Pegasus Red-figure oinochoe Apulian, c. 320-10 BC 3 Boston, MFA Classical images – Greek Pegasus Silver coin (Pegasus and Athena) Silver coin (Pegasus and Lion/Bull combat) Corinth, c. 415-387 BC Lycia, c. 500-460 BC London, The British Museum (Ac RPK.p6B.30 Cor) London, The British Museum (Ac 1979.0101.697) Silver coin (Pegasus protome and Warrior (Nergal?)) Silver coin (Arethusa and Pegasus Levantine, 5th-4th C BC Graeco-Iberian, after 241 BC London, The British Museum (Ac 1983, 0533.1) London, The British Museum (Ac. 1987.0649.434) 4 Classical images – Greek (winged horses) Pegasus Helios (Sol-Apollo) in his chariot Eos in her chariot Attic kalyx-krater, c. 430 BC Attic red-figure stamnos (attr Stamnos painter) London, The British Museum (E 466) c. 440 BC London, The British Museum (1959.0301.5) 5 Classical images – Greek (Bellerophon myth) Pegasus Pegasus attacking the Chimera Bellerophon spearing the Chimera Bellerophon spearing the Chimera Laconian black-figure kylix Baltimore Painter, second half 4th C BC Attic red-figure epinetron attr. Boread painter, c. 570-65 BC Rome, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme 425-20 BC Los Angeles, Getty Museum Credit: www.ancient.edu (Carole Raddato) CC BY-SA 2.5 Acc. 85 AE 121 Bellerophon and the Chimera Bellerophon and the Chimera Attic black-figure cup from Camirus Proto-Corinthian aryballos attr. Heidelberg painter, c. 560-50 BC from Thebes, c. 650 BC Paris, Musée du Louvre (ac. A 478) Boston, MFA source: Theoi.com 6 Classical images – Greek (Bellerophon myth) Pegasus Bellerophon spearing the Chimera Bellerophon spearing the Chimera Bellerophon spearing the Chimera From Leos (Cycladic?), 490-470 BC Terracotta flask, Apulia, c. 300-250 BC Fragm. of red-figure oinochoe London, The British Museum (1842, 0728.1135) London, The British Museum Apulian, c. 350-40 BC n.b. – no wings (GR. 1867.5-8.647) Boston, MFA (10.204) Bellerophon spearing the Chimera Bellerophon spearing the Chimera Bellerophon hands letter to Proitus Athenian red-figure pelike (attrib Barclay pntr), credit: Wikimedia Commons – Jastrow 2006 Apoulian red-figure stamnos, c. 400 BC c. 440 BC (Ac G 535) 7 Boston, MFA (00.349a) Paris, Musée du Louvre (credit Flickr-Egisto Sani) Classical images – Greek (Bellerophon myth) Pegasus Bellerophon attacking the Chimera Bellerophon on Pegasus – hunting? Pebble mosaic, c. 300-270 BC Greek, 6th C BC Rhodes Museum location unknown Source: Wikimedia Common (TobyJ) source: Warburg Institute Iconographic Database 8 Classical images – Greek (Bellophon myth) Pegasus Bellerophon spearing the Chimera Bellerophon and Peegasus London, British Museum Attic red-figure epinetron Attic red-figure askos, c. 420-10 BC 425-20 BC Kiel, Antikensammlung (B. 571) CC BY-SA 2.5 Paris, Musée du Louvre source: Theoi.com 9 Classical images – Greek (birth of Pegasus from Medusa’s blood) Pegasus Perseus and the birth of Pegasus Running Gorgon, headless Medusa and small Pegasus Attic bilingual white ground lekythos Black-figure pouring bowl with 3 handles attr. Diosphos Painter, c. 500-450 BC Boiotia (Thebes), late 5th C BC New York, Metroloitan Museum of Art Boston MFA (Ac 01.8070) (1070) 10 Classical images – Greek (birth of Pegasus and Chrysaor from Medusa’s blood) Pegasus The birth of Pegasus and Chrysaor The birth of Pegasus and Chrysaor Etruscan Athenian black-figure pyxis, 6ht C BC Munich Paris, Musée du Louvre (Ca 2588) The birth of Pegasus and Chrysaor Sarcophagus from Golgoi (Cyprus) 11 Classical images – Greek and Roman (Hippocrene spring) Pegasus Pegasus at the Hippocrene Spring Pegasus at the Hippocrene Spring Apulian red-figure krater fragment Silver denarius, dated 79-80 AD (Domitian) c. 360-350 BC Source: Wikimedia Commons ( ancientcointraders.com) Tampa, Tampa Museum of Art (86.104) source: theoi.com 12 Classical images – Greek Pegasus Phrygian terracotta plaque Terracotta relief (fragment) From Anatolia, c. 550-500 BC From Sardis (Acropolis), 6th C BC source: Hixenbaugh Ancient Art Location unknown Gallery, NYC source: Warburg Iconographic Database 13 Classical images – Greek (rhytons) Pegasus Protome of Pegasus on rhyton Protome of Pegasus on rhyton Protome of Pegasus on rhyton New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art found in village of Vazovo (Razgrad) Bulgaria, Scythian, found in Ulyap (Adygea) 5th-4th C BC 5th C BC credit: Pintertest (Bugaria-Thracian treasures/ Moscow, Museum of Oriental Art Suzanne Scott) - 14 Classical images – Greek (rhytons) Pegasus Protome of Pegasus on rhyton Protome of Pegasus on rhyton Apulian, 399-300 BC Thracian, end 4th C BC Univ Pennsylvania Museum (Ac MS 2250) Prague, National Gallery, Kinsky Palace (ac NM-HM10.1407) 15 Classical images – Etruscan Pegasus Tomb relief Etruscan, 5th- 1st C BC Chiusi, Museo nazionale Etrusco 16 Classical images – Roman Pegasus Cast of Corinthian column Capital with Pegasus protome From Forum of Augustus, Temple From Kathisma Hippodrome, first half 6th C BC of Mars Ultor Istanbul, Archeological Museum (inv. 2404T) late 18th -early 19th C London, Royal Academy of Arts 17 Classical images – Roman Pegasus Pegasus on oil lamp Pegasus on an oil lamp Pegasus – furniture/utensil ornament 1st C AD Roman, 90-150 AD From the Oarcle to Zeus, Dodona (Epirus) source: Pinterest (Jeh (JE) Bruce London, The British Museum 6th C BC (Ac. 1866.0716.3) Paris, Musée du Loiuvre Bronze fitting Copper alloy coin (anonymous) Capricorn and Pegasus from the Towneley Collection Roman Republican, c. 275-70 BC Insignia of Legio II Augusta, found in Benwell, London, The British Museum London, The British Museum Northumberland, 1-2 C AD (Ac. 1814.0704.1564) date (?) (Ac. R12184) London, The British Museum (OA 250) 18 Classical images – Roman (Bellerophon and Pegasus) Pegasus Pegasus and Bellerophon with Chimera Pegasus and Bellerophon with Chimera from Palmyra, 3rd C AD Nimes, Archaeological Museum source: theoi.com source: theoi.com Pegasus and Bellerophon with Chimera (det) Bellerophon watering Pegasus sarcophagus, Roman, 240-50 AD Roma, 117-18 Rome, Villa Doria Pamphili caino facade Rome, Palazzo Spada 19 Classical images – Roman Pegasus Diana in her bath Fragment of wall painting Fragment of wall painting Volubilis Rome, Palazzo Massimo from Pompeii, 1st C AD London, The British Museum (Ac 1856.1226.1633) 20 Classical images – Roman Pegasus Pegasus with nymphs/Muses From Sebratha Tripoli Museum Pegasus Sol-Apollo riding Pegasus and one of the Gemini(?) Roman Spain, 2nd C AD Romano-British, 2-3rd CAD Cordoba, Museo Arch. Corbridge Museum (cf. Toynbee 1962, pl. 95) 21 Classical images – Roman Pegasus The Grand Camée de France Roman, 23-29 AD (Tiberius) Paris, BnF, Dépt de Monnaies, etc. 22 Classical images – late Roman Pegasus Bellerophon and the Chimera Pegasus from Hinton St Mary Coptic wool tapestry fragment, 7-8th C th Romano-British, 4 C AD Boston MFA (36.579) London, The British Museum (Ac 1965.0409.1) Ivory panel of Bellerophon and the Chimera late Roman, 5th C AD London, The British Museum th Bellerophon and the Chimera ‘Sabina’s shawl’, Coptic (from Antinoë), 5 C (Ac. 1856.0623.2) 23 Lullingstone, Kent, mid-4th C AD Paris, Musée du Louvre (A23902) Classical images – Persian, etc Pegasus Two males with winged horses (Dioscuri? Bellerophon?) Roundels with confronting winged horses Silver with mercury gilding Silk twill textile fragment Sasanian, 5th-6th C AD Persian (Sassanian), 5th-8th C AD New York, The Metropolitan Museum (Ac 63.152) Sarikhani Collection (GB) 24 Classical globes Pegasus Naples, Farnese Atlas (inverted) © Petr Hadrava (inverted) Bentley’s Manilius n.b. – straight cut-off, wings raised, both front legs extended Paris, Kugel Globe (inverted) Mainz globe (inverted) (drawing © Kunzl) n.b. – curved cut-off, no wings, legs n.b. – winged, curved cut-off, circle on nose, legs tucked under extended 25 Germanicus mss Pegasus I. = z stemma missing from manuscript Leiden, Univbibl Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibl. Mun. Bern, Burgerbibl, Voss lat 4° 79 Ms 188 Ms 88 n.b. – wings raised, legs extended, curved same same cut-off vs. planisphere – winged, legs extended vs. planisphere – same 26 Germanicus mss Pegasus II and III. = O stemma (O1 or ν ) II. III. Basle, OBU Aberystwyth, NLW vs. planisphere Ms AN.IV . 18 Ms 735 C n.b. – no wings, legs extended, wavy cut- n.b. – wings raised, feet extended, O at cut-off n.b. – wings on either side of body, off headband, mouth open, legs extended, wavy cut-off vs. planisphere n.b. – as a hump-backed porcine creature vs. schema vs. winter hemisphere with large ears ? resembles Taurus, no wings no wings, legs extended, wavy cut-off 27 Germanicus mss Pegasus IV. = O stemma (O2 or μ ) Va. = O stemma (O2 or μ = Siciliensis) Cologny, Bib Bodmer NY, Pierpont Morgan Libr Cod lat 7 Ms M 389 n.b. – similar, band at cut-off, same mouth open Vb. Madrid, Bib nac Ms 19 (16) Vatican, BAV n.b. – wings raised, feet extended, tree-ring cut-off Barb lat 76 same 28 Germanicus mss = ‘Siciliensis’ Pegasus VI.
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