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Posted: 10 May 2009

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Detail of a South Italian Storage Jar with a Scene from the Oresteia in the Getty Villa, July 2008

Detail of a South Italian Storage Jar with a Scene from the Oresteia in the Getty Villa, July 2008
Storage Jar with a Scene from the Oresteia
Greek, made in Paestum, South Italy, 350-320 BC
Terracotta
Red-figured amphora attributed to a painter close to Asteas

Inventory # 80.AE.155

As described by Aeschylus in his Oresteia trilogy, Clytemnestra bares her breast in supplication to her son Orestes, who intends to kill her. In the upper right a Fury, a female spirit of vengeance, advances toward Orestes, wielding snakes to torment him for his crime of matricide.

Text from the Getty Villa museum label.
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