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🎨 Silver Phiale by Pytheas (LIMC Diomedes I 78)

  • This bowl, described by Pliny, cannot be dated with any certainty. It depicted Odysseus and Diomedes stealing the Palladion.
  • Source subtype
    Vessel
    Period
    Early Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE) Late Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE) Middle Hellenistic (ca. 220-150 BCE) Early Hellenistic (ca. 336-220 BCE) Late Classical (ca. 400-330 BCE) Middle Classical (ca. 450-400 BCE) Early Classical (ca. 480-450 BCE)
    UNESCO status
    Now lost
    LIMC catalog references
    Diomedes I 78
    Reported to have depictions of
    πŸ‘€ Diomedes (Argive I) son of Tydeus, leader of the Argos contingent at TroyπŸ‘€ Odysseus king of Ithaca, leader of the Cephallenian contingent at Troy🏺 the Palladion (statue) statue of Athena protecting Troy
    Described by
    πŸ“– Pliny, Natural History 33.156
    Commentary
    This bowl, described by Pliny, cannot be dated with any certainty. It depicted Odysseus and Diomedes stealing the Palladion.
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