Caption:
Dish with Metabus Throwing Camilla across the River Amasenus Dish with Metabus throwing Camilla over the Amasenus river, Round dish on a base of multi-colored majolica. Depicted is Metabus who throws Camilla over the Amasenus River, derived from the Aeneas of Virgil. On the left bank of the Amasenus, Metabus has a spear in his hands, to which Camilla is tied with a cloth. With this he reaches to the other bank, on which three women are standing. There is a river god in the water. On the back of the board the inscription: Methapo oltr Amasce // lancio Camilla // 1544, Metabus, Camilla's father, with the enemy almost upon him, throws the baby Camilla, lashed on his spear, over the river Amasenus and invokes Diana's help, anonymous, Urbino, 1544, earthenware, tin glaze, lead glaze, h 6.3 cm × d 28.1 cm