19-03-2020, 02:10
Hellenistic, cameo, 4th century BC.
Hippolyte with a hunting companion, Phaedra with her nurse (right).
Phaedra entrusts the nurse with a message declaring her love, her stepson Hyppolite refuses her advances.
Greek myth and play by Euripides.
Cameo, 4,1 x 3 cm. Inv. 25834. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy.
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