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The Ophidian Iconography Quest (Mundus Vetus & Mundus Novus, 2004 - present) |
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| Figure EUR-vat-040. Argonaut Jason's lifeless body protruding from the mouth of the never sleeping bearded Colchis Dragon, rearing in front of the sacred tree (young oak?) with the Golden Fleece hanging from its branches in a sacred grove of god Ares; helmeted goddess Athena wearing scaly torso-&-cloak-aegis with snakes-fringe and gorgoneion (the severed head of Gorgon Medusa) and holding spear in her right hand and the sacred owl in her left. |
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| Ceramic (earthenware), monochrome (?) pigments |
Vase painting (Attic red-figure kylix, painted de-coration, detail) |
Douris (fl. 500- 460 BC) |
Early Classical, 480-470 BC |
Cerveteri, Lazio, Central Italy (Etruria) |
Musei Vaticani (Museo Gregoriano Etrusco), Vatican, Inventory № 16545 |
| Source-Image(s): The image(s) is/are from Alexei Alexeev's personal photo archive (The First Vatican Expedition, 29 March - 25 April 2015). All artefacts will be available for viewing in the Compendium's respective volumes after the completion of the fully integrated iconographic database. Some of the artefacts will be represented by several figures (offering a general view and details). |
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