olpe | British Museum

Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

olpe

Object Type
Museum number: 1836,0224.97
Description: Pottery: black-figured olpe (jug). Design in black on a red panel, with accessories of purple; on the lip, chequer-pattern; on the neck, an ivy-wreath; slight accessories of white. Heracles subduing the Cretan bull: Heracles to right, nude and bearded, stands at the further side of the bull, drawing its head to the ground by a rope fastened round its nose and hind-leg; the bull kneels on its right knee to right. In the field, branches.
Producer name
Cultures/periods
Production date: 510BC-500BC
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Vulci (said to be from)
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 22.86 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B474); Old Catalogue / A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (650)
Location: On display (G69/dc35)
Subjects: classical deity; mythical figure/creature
Associated names: Representation of: Herakles/Hercules; Representation of: Cretan Bull
Associated events: Associated Event: Twelve Labours of Herakles
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Edmé Antoine Durand (sale); Purchased through: Peter Oluf Brøndsted
Acquisition date: 1836
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1836,0224.97