Hera Lekythos by the Brygos Painter 500 BCE

November 13, 2019

Hera Lekythos by the Brygos Painter 500 BCE - 475 BCE

Collection:	Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
Summary:	Hera seated
Ware:	Attic Red Figure
Painter:	Attributed to the Brygos Painter
Attributed By:	J.D. Beazley and D.M. Robinson
Context:	Said to be from Gela
Date:	ca. 500 BC - ca. 475 BC
Dimensions:	H. 0.336 m., D. 0.120 m.
Primary Citation:	ARV2, 384, 208 (157); Beazley Addenda 2, p.228: 384.208
Shape:	Lekythos
Beazley Number:	204109
Region:	Sicily
Period:	Late Archaic

"I sing of golden-throned Hera whom Rhea bare. Queen of the Immortals is she, surpassing all in beauty: she is the sister and wife of loud-thundering Zeus,--the glorious one whom all the blessed throughout high Olympos reverence and honour even as Zeus who delights in thunder."

-Homeric Hymn 12 to Hera (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th to 4th B.C.)