Terracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar)
Attributed to the Berlin Painter
Obverse, Poseidon
Reverse, youth
By some accounts, Poseidon was the father of Theseus. The representation here would show father and son—Poseidon, ruler of the sea, and Theseus, the legendary king of Athens.
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