Nike pouring wine from an oinochoe into a phiale held by Poseidon

Calyx krater
17. Calyx krater
Aegisthus Painter (Greek, Attic)
Nike pouring wine from an oinochoe into a phiale held by Poseidon
Clay, red-figure, ca. 470 BCE
James W. Fosburgh, B.A. 1933, and Mary C. Fosburgh Collection Fund and Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1913, Fund
Photograph courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery
1985.4.1

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