amphora
- Museum number
- 1843,1103.37
- Description
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Pottery: black-figured amphora. Designs in black on red panels, with borders of lotus and honeysuckle above and lotus-buds below; accessories of white and purple.
(a) Heracles conducted to Olympos: A quadriga to right, in which are side by side Athene with high-crested helmet with cheek-pieces, aegis with scales, long chiton with purple spots, goad in right hand, reins in both, and Heracles with lion's skin, and club over shoulder. By the further side of the chariot is Apollo Citharoedos to right, beardless, with long tresses, laurel wreath, long chiton with looped-up sleeves, and striped himation, playing the chelys. In advance of him is Dionysos to right, looking back, with long beard and tresses, ivy-wreath, long embroidered chiton, in right hand a vine-branch. At the horses' heads is Hebe (?) to left, with long tresses, fillet, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, right hand extended.
(b) Quadriga to left, the charioteer beardless, with long white chiton; stepping into it is a warrior with lofty visored helmet, short embroidered chiton, greaves, two spears, and shield with device of a scorpion to left. In the field above the horses, a hawk flying to right, and the inscription, καλός.
- Production date
- 520BC-500BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 63.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Overbeck, Kunstmyth. (Apollo), p. 49.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1843
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1843,1103.37