No C 29
Orvieto Duomo 333
Black-figure amphora

Zeus is seated on a throne. He is represented with head and legs in profile to the right. Seated he is almost as tall as the surrounding standing figures. The feet rest on a footstool. Presumably the left arm was extende obliquely upward, the hand holding a staff surmounted by an ornament (ram's head?). The god has short-cropped hair with a headband. His dress consists of a chiton and a himation.

Athena is represented standing on the lap of Zeus, head and feet in profile to the right. She wears a helmet and carries a shield on the left arm; the right arm is raised, the hand holding a spear.

There is one deity on each side of the picture. On the right stands a goddess with the right arm raised, with palm turned outward and extended fingers, the left forearm extendet almost horizontally, the hand holding a staff. On the left side stands a goddess with the right forearm extended almost horizontally forward, the hand with extended fingers seen on the back, and the left arm raised, with palm turned outward and extended fingers.

The throne has    rectangular legs decorated with double palmettes and cut-out incisions round their stems.

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