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Calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), ca. 515 B.C., signed by Euxitheos (potter) and Euphronios (painter), Greek, Attic. Purchase, Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, Gift of Darius Ogden Mills and Gift of C. Ruxton Love, by exchange, 1972 (1972.11.10)
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This late-Archaic krater depicts a scene from what is ultimately a tale of hope: Sleep and Death lifting the body of the Trojan prince Sarpedon, son of Zeus. After Zeus reluctantly allowed his son to die in battle, a great fight ensued over Sarpedon's corpse until Apollo eventually was able to rescue it on Zeus' instructions. The body was then carried back home to Lycia by Sleep and Death and given an honorable burial.
Location: The Bothmer Gallery II, Greek and Roman Art, first floor
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