An Attic red-figure terracotta pelike, a two-handled storage jar, attributed to the Nausicaa Painter and dated to about 460 to 450 BC. Side A shows the Titan Rhea handing Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, the deception by which she saved the infant Zeus from being swallowed in his place, with Cronus, bearded and holding a sceptre, receiving it; side B shows a draped youth leaning on a staff beside a chair and a suspended bag. Its findspot is recorded as Rhodes, and it has been catalogued in the Beazley Archive (vase 214648) and the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC Cronus 22).
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Date of Creation Attributed To CountryGreece (findspot Rhodes) 2 Custody
Current LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession 06.1021.144) 1 Current CustodianMetropolitan Museum of Art 1 Subject Matter
Depicted SubjectRhea handing Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes in place of the infant Zeus, whom the ruse allows her to save. 2 Rights and Reproduction
Reproduction and CopyrightThe Metropolitan Museum of Art has released its own photograph of this vase under CC0. This atlas nonetheless describes and cites the work rather than reproducing an image of it. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Cronus directly: "Side A shows the Titan Rhea handing Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, the deception by which she saved the infant Zeus from being swallowed in his place, with Cronus, bearded and holding..."
Rhea, Figures This source names Rhea directly: "Side A shows the Titan Rhea handing Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, the deception by which she saved the infant Zeus from being swallowed in his place, with Cronus, bearded and holding..."
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