hydria
- Museum number
- 1843,1103.47
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured hydria.
Heracles seizing Nereus. Nereus, an old man with long white hair and beard, wreathed, with long sleeved chiton and mantle, holding sceptre in right and fish in left, moves to right, looking round at Heracles, who places his left hand on the other's back, seizing with his right hand the right wrist of the sea-god. He is bearded, and wears a short chiton, the lion-skin with paws knotted on his chest, a sword at his waist, and a quiver, to which his curved bow is attached, with wing-shaped flap. The lion-skin is covered with rows of brown dots.
Strong style. Design on body of vase only, no borders except the maeander under feet of figures. White used for the hair, beard, and eyebrows of Nereus; purple for his wreath, and the sword-belt of Heracles. Brown inner markings, finely drawn, and upper folds of chiton. Eye archaic, with inner angle open; ear in shape like a horse-shoe. The lower folds of the chiton thick and formal. Round the neck, tongue pattern.
- Production date
- 490BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 55.88 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G69/dc37)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2017, 4 Mar-11 Jun, Princeton University Art Museum, The Berlin Painter and his world: Athenian Vase-painting in the early fifth century BC
2017, 7 Jul-1 Oct, Toledo Museum of Art, The Berlin Painter and his world: Athenian Vase-painting in the early fifth century BC
- Acquisition date
- 1843
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1843,1103.47