Muses on mount Helikon, Lekythos hand-painted, Collection of Classical Antiquities/Glyptothek Munich, 40 cm height, 1.4 kg weight
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Two Muses on the Helikon, the Musesmountain, which is why they are also called Helikoniades.
White-ground Lekythos (anointing oil vessel) with Muses representation,
Original Collection of Classical Antiquities Munich
The following link leads you directly to the original exhibit in Wikipedia:
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Α Ξ Ι Ο Π Ε Ι Θ Η Σ / Κ Α Λ Ο Σ / Α Λ Κ Ι Μ Α Χ Ο
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With the hoofbeat of Pegasos, the winged horse on the Helikon opened the Hippocrene, the horse spring in which the nine muses bathed.
In ancient times, the nine Muses were the patron goddesses of the arts (singing, music, dance, poetry) and later of the sciences and all intellectual activities in general. The Titan Mnemosyne (Greek "memory"), daughter of Uranus and the earth mother Gaia, gave birth to Zeus in Pierien on Mount Olympus.
The nine Muses have been assigned to the following areas:
Erato - poetry, erotic poetry
Euterpe - Flute playing
Calliope - epic poetry
Kleio - historiography, epic poetry
Melpomene - Tragedy
Polyhymnia - Dance, Music
Terpsichore - lyre, dance
Thaleia - comedy
Urania - Astronomy
The leader of the Muses was the god of wisdom, Apollon, in this capacity also called Apollon Musagetes (Musagetes Greek "Musesleader").
This hand-painted anointing vessel, a lekythos, shows a muse playing kithara on the string instrument, probably representing terpsichore, while the standing muse listens to her sister fascinated. At the bottom right of the music-making muse is the inscription (ΗΛΙΚΟΝ /Hēlikon), the name of the Musenberg on which the two goddesses are located.
In the middle of the two muses is in ancient Greek letters
Axiopeithes, son of Alkimachos, is beautiful.
The Munich Collection of Classical Antiquities/Glyptotek, in which this Lekythos is exhibited, boasts the world's largest collection of white-ground Lekyths from Athens.
The hand-painted replica is made in original size.
A seal on the handle bears the inscription "MUSEUM COPY", on the back "HAND MADE IN GREECE".
This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday, April 17, 2018.