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Apollo and Dolphins

This red figure vase by the Berlin Painter shows Apollo sitting on a tripod, holding his lyre and wearing his bow/arrows on his back. The wings symbolize Apollo’s journey over the sea, perhaps to the far-off land of the Hyperboreans. The dolphins on either side of the tripod may allude to Apollo’s epithet “Delphinios”. See the below for a view of the entire vase.

This view shows how the figure of Apollo is actually painted on the curved shoulder of the vase. Notice too the fish and octopus below the waves.