Tripod Leg

Tripod leg, cast, with representations in six relief panels:

1.A male figure holding a horse by the bridle.

2.A lion and on top of it a scorpion.

3.Odysseus escapes from the Cyclops’ cave hiding under the ram’s belly. On top of the ram, a bird.

4.A goat and a bird.

5. Two opposed birds are fighting.

6. The Gorgon with her child, Pegasus. Beside her head a lizard, an underworld being symbolizing the Gorgon’s death.

 

Tripod leg

Ca. 600 BC.

Corinthian workshop

Olympia, Archaeological Museum

 

 

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