Oedipus and Sphinx-Kylix red figured Museum Vatican, handpainted, 16,2 cm diameter, 5,3 cm high, 300 g
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Original picture from the Vatican Museums in Rome
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The sphinx was a mixed figure with the body of a winged lion and the head of a woman.
She was in trouble in Thebes. The sphinx puzzled those passing by: "What has a voice, walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening?" She devoured everyone who could not solve her riddle.
The tragic hero Oedipus, who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother, solved this mystery. "The human being is meant. He crawls in his childhood, on his morning of life, on all fours; in his manhood he walks on two legs and in his old age, at the end of his life, he uses a stick as a third leg to help".
Thereupon the sphinx threw itself from a rock into an abyss.
The scene of the enigma between Oedipus and sphinx is depicted on this Kylix, a red-figure vase painting by the Oedipus painter. The edge of the Kylix is decorated with a meandering pattern. The work is dated 470-460 BC and is exhibited in the Musei e Gallerie Pontificie in the Vatican under the inventory number 16541.
Hand-painted replica reproduced as reduction. A seal on the handle bears the inscription "MUSEUM COPY", on the back "HAND MADE IN GREECE".
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This product was added to our catalog on Sunday, September 27, 2015.