object type / vase shape: attic black figure olpe with round mouth
<p>- description: Perseus killing the Gorgo Medusa, Hermes
- production place: Athens
- painter: Amasis Painter
- period / date: ripe archaic, ca. 550-530 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height (including handle): 25.5 / 25.8 cm
- findspot: Vulci
- museum / inventory number: London, British Museum 1849,0620.5 / cat. vases B 471
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, 153.32
- <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1849-0620-5">https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1849-0620-5</a>
- Dietrich von Bothmer, The Amasis Painter and his world, Malibu 1985, cat. 31
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