Sacred Athena

Athena and Hera on a white-ground box

Terracotta pyxis (box), ca. 465–460 BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 07.286.36a, b.

Terracotta pyxis (box), ca. 465–460 BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 07.286.36a, b.

Caption and print note The selected view shows Athena and Hera, not Paris himself. Caption this as a view of the Judgment of Paris decoration, not the entire narrative. Preserve the attribution to the Penthesilea Painter; the work is white-ground terracotta, not a surviving panel painting.

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