- Museum number
- 1843,1103.97
- Description
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Pottery: black-figured amphora. Designs in black on red panels, with accessories of white and purple, and borders of lotus and honeysuckle pattern above the designs on the body; no accessories on the design on the lip.
(a) On the lip: Heracles strangling the Nemean lion: Heracles nude and bearded; above is his sword suspended. On the right is Hermes stooping to left, bearded, with chlamys, petasos, and endromides, right hand extended. On the left is Iolaos rushing forward to right, bearded, with short chiton, sword at side, club in right hand, left extended. On either side, facing the scene, is a boar.
On the body: Heracles conducted to Olympos: A quadriga to right, in which are Athene with long tresses, high-crested helmet with cheek-pieces, aegis, long chiton, spear in right hand, reins in both, and Heracles bearded, with fillet, and club in left hand. In front of them is inscribed: HEPAKΛEΣ, AOENA. By the further side of the horses is Apollo Citharoedos to right, beardless, hair bound up with laurel-wreath, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, playing with a plectrum on the chelys; in front of him: ΑΓΟΛΟΝ. At the horses' heads is Hermes, kneeling on one knee to left, bearded, with long hair, chlamys, petasos, endromides, and caduceus; in front of him: HEPMEΣ. Beneath the horses : POΣIAΣ, Poσίας; and above their heads ΔΙΟΣ, which may mean (the chariot) of Zeus (?), or, like Rhosias, it may be a horse's name.
(b) Combat of five warriors: All are fully armed, and bearded, with long tresses, two in the centre thrusting at each other with spears; of these, the one on the right has two dolphins to left as device on his shield. Between them is a warrior fallen back to right, with stone in left hand which he endeavours to hurl, defending himself with a shield on which are two pellets. On either side is a warrior departing; the one on the right has the device of a tripod on his shield, the other a bull's head. Behind the latter is inscribed Χα[ρ]ιάδης; below the former: Λεύκων; in front: Δεντερ(ος?; around the centre ones Πύλης καλός, also Δίκ(αί)ά(ρ)κης.
- Production date
- 520BC-500BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 390 millimetres
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Height: 63.50 centimetres
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Height: 640 millimetres
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Weight: 9 kilograms (approx)
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Overbeck, Kunstmyth. (Apollo), p. 49; C.I.Gr. 7552b.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2008 1 May-12 Jul, Shanghai, The Ancient Olympic Games
2008 2 Aug-31 Sep, Hong Kong, The Ancient Olympic Games
2009 2 Apr-13 Oct, Alicante, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010 30 Apr-30 Aug, Seoul, National Museum of Korea, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
Exhibited:
2009 2 Apr-13 Oct, Alicante, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010 30 Apr-30 Aug, Seoul, National Museum of Korea, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010-2011 15 Oct-07 Feb, Taipei, The National Palace Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010-2011, 11 Mar-12 Jun, Kobe City Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2011, 4 July-25 Sept, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2011-2012, 25 Oct-12 Feb, Mexico City, National Anthropological Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2012-2013 6 Oct-6 Jan, Portland Art Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2013, 6 May–6 Oct, Dallas Museum of Art, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2014, 21 Feb-9 Jun, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2014, 2 Aug–9 Nov, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia, The Body Beautiful in Greek Art and Thought
2015, 26 Mar-5 Jul, The British Museum, Defining Beauty: the body in ancient Greek art
- Acquisition date
- 1843
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1843,1103.97
