- Museum number
- 1772,0320.432
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora.
Designs red on black ground; coarse style. Above the designs, egg-moulding, red on black; below, maeander, black on red.
(a) Heracles with face to front, beard and moustache, and lion's skin over his head, supporting on his shoulders the heavens, which are represented by a hemisphere on which are a crescent and two stars. On the right is Hera, with long hair, mitra, long chiton, and bordered himation, extending right hand to him, left muffled in drapery; partly restored.
(b) Atlas to left, bearded, with short chiton and hands extended, advances towards the tree in the garden of the Hesperides, on which are three golden apples; round it is coiled the serpent with two bearded heads, one issuing on either side; the one on the right has its crest raised and tongue protruding. On the left is a Hesperid to right with curly hair, cap, long sleeved chiton and apoptygma to the hips, extending left hand to one of the serpent's heads, as if to calm it.
- Production date
- 470BC-425BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 33.02 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Passeri, Pict. Etr. iii. pl. 249; D'Hancarville, iii. pl. 94; Inghirami, Mon. Etr. v. pl. 17; Gerhard, Gesammelte Abhandl. 1836, p. 298, and 1841, p. 117, pl. xx. 5, 6; Roscher, i. p. 710; Daremberg and Saglio, i. p. 478 (figure of Heracles); Heydemann, Humoristische Vasenb. p. 5, note 14 b; a similar vase in Bull. Arch. Nap. iv. (1845-6), pl. 5.
- Location
- On display (G73/dc65)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2009-2010, 25 Oct-24 Jan, Oldenberg, Landesmuseum, Ex Oriente Lux.
2009, 12 Mar-30 Aug, Florence, Istituto e Museo di Storia Della Scienza
- Acquisition date
- 1772
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1772,0320.432