Bronze handle of a shallow basin 4th century Greek The attachments at each end of the handle depict Nereids riding hippocamps (sea horses) and bringing a shield and a cuirass (body armor) to Achilles. Because the mythological reference is to the sea, the vase to which the handle belonged may have contained water—a podanypter (foot basin), for Bronze handle of a shallow basin. Greek. 4th century Bronze. Late Classical. Bronzes

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