Plaster Casts From Begram. Kapisa Province.

1965
Ganymede feeding the Eagle of Zeus (d. 16.3 cm.). Many versions of this popular subject were engraved on plaques and gems during the Greco-Roman period. Ganymede was a beautiful Trojan youth made immortal and taken up to Olympus to be the cupbearer to the gods.
Photo: Louis Dupree

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Contained in galleries: NATIONAL MUSEUM II: CE (Common Era)

1965<br />
Ganymede feeding the Eagle of Zeus (d. 16.3 cm.). Many versions of this popular subject were engraved on plaques and gems during the Greco-Roman period. Ganymede was a beautiful Trojan youth made immortal and taken up to Olympus to be the cupbearer to the gods.<br />
Photo: Louis Dupree