Dish depicting Phaethon Challenged by Epaphus Dish with the match between Ephasus and Faeton (after Ovid's Metamorphoses); Plate of multi-colored majolica with the match between Epaphus and Phaeton. There are frightened people in a landscape. Phaethon drives through the air on the solar car; which is pulled by four horses. On the back of the board the inscription: Contentione di Papho e di Phetonte nel fine del primo d'Ovidio 1545; Phaethon drives the chariot of the sun; the earth is threatened with conflagration; anonymous; Urbino; 1545; earthenware; tin glaze; lead glaze; d 27.2 cm d 13.0 cm