Poseidon riding on a hippocamp (half winged horse, half sea serpent) alongside dolphins

Lekythos with Poseidon riding a hippocamp
15. Lekythos
Athena Painter (Greek)
Poseidon riding on a hippocamp (half winged horse, half sea serpent) alongside dolphins
Clay, black-figure, ca. 500 BCE
Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard
Photograph courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery
1913.112

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