amphora
- Museum number
- 1843,1103.3
- Description
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Pottery: black-figured amphora. Designs in black on red panels, with borders of lotus and honeysuckle above; accessories of white and purple, the former faded.
(a) Combat of Heracles and Kyknos; Heracles to right, with lion's skin, short chiton, sword, quiver, and bow, thrusts with spear at Kyknos who is fallen on one knee to right; behind the latter stands Ares; both he and Kyknos are fully armed and have long hair, but Kyknos has no cuirass. Ares has an ivy-wreath as device on his shield, Kyknos a snake; both thrust with spears. Behind Heracles is Athene, with long tresses, high-crested helmet with cheek-pieces, aegis, long embroidered chiton, himation, and shield, thrusting with her spear at Ares.
(b) Dionysos to right, looking back, with long beard and tresses, ivy-wreath, long chiton and himation, in right hand vine-branches with bunches of grapes, in left a cantharos. On the left, moving to right is a Maenad with long hair, ivy-wreath, long chiton and himation, playing on the chelys; the white is faded from the nude parts; on the right, a Maenad to left, as the last, playing the double flute.
- Production date
- 510BC-500BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 370 millimetres
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Height: 590 millimetres
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Weight: 8750 grammes
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Width: 370 millimetres
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Depth: 370 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Mayer, Gig. u. Titan, p. 315.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1843
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1843,1103.3
