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Lid of Paestan red-figure lekanis, c. 360-350 BC, attributed to Asteas, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

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Title
Lid of Paestan red-figure lekanis, c. 360-350 BC, attributed to Asteas, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Additional title: Musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas, with Muse.
Names
Bineteau, P. (Lithographer)
Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection

Music -- Ancient -- Greek

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1844 - 1861
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC MUSIC-Anc-Gre
Topics
Music -- Greece -- To 499
Flutes
Muses (Greek deities)
Auloi
Mythology, Greek
Apollo (Greek deity)
Musical instruments -- Greece -- To 499
Marsyas (Greek deity)
Cithara
Pottery, Greek
Genres
Prints
Notes
Content: Written on border: "Apollo seated on a rock plays his cithara. He is richly dressed in an Asiatic or Scythian costume indicating Apollo Hyperborean. Marsyas playing his double flute wears a leopard skin tied over his chest. Calliope with a lyre and drum. This plate is continued...with two Muses and an Ionic Temple."
Source note: Elite des monuments céramographiques : matériaux pour l''histoire des religions et des moeurs de l''antiquité. (Paris : Leleux, 1844-1861) Lenormant, Charles (1802-1859), Author.
Physical Description
Lithographs
Foxing on image.
Extent: 1 print : b ; 21.7 x 34.4 cm.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b17487531
Barcode: 33333159457593
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): b228c320-c557-012f-1381-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1844: Issued (Approximate)
  • 2014: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Lid of Paestan red-figure lekanis, c. 360-350 BC, attributed to Asteas, Musée du Louvre, Paris." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1844 - 1861. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-3d74-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Lid of Paestan red-figure lekanis, c. 360-350 BC, attributed to Asteas, Musée du Louvre, Paris." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 7, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-3d74-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1844 - 1861). Lid of Paestan red-figure lekanis, c. 360-350 BC, attributed to Asteas, Musée du Louvre, Paris. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-3d74-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Lid of Paestan red-figure lekanis, c. 360-350 BC, attributed to Asteas, Musée du Louvre, Paris.