- Museum number
- 1861,0425.50
- Description
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Pottery: black-figured amphora. Painted and incised designs in black on red panels, with lotus and honeysuckle pattern above. On the sides of the handles, rosettes.
(a) Nuptials of Zeus and Hera: A quadriga to right, in which are Zeus, bearded, with short curls in front, laurel-wreath, long chiton, and embroidered himation, holding reins, and at his further side Hera, in long purple chiton and embroidered himation veiling her head. Behind them is Apollo Citharoedos to right, beardless, with long tresses wreathed with myrtle, long-white chiton and striped himation with crenellated border, playing with a plectrum on the chelys, from which hangs embroidered drapery. In front of his feet is a Siren to right looking back, with long hair, standing on a tendril. By the further side of the chariot are three deities to right: Dionysos, bearded, with long hair, ivy-wreath, long embroidered chiton and purple himation, in left hand an ivy-branch; Aphrodite, with long hair, fillet, long diapered chiton with purple diploidion, holding a lebes on her head with left hand; Poseidon, bearded, with long hair, fillet, long embroidered chiton and purple himation, in left hand a trident. At the horses' heads are Artemis to left, with long hair, fillet, long chiton, striped embroidered himation, in right hand the nuptial torches, and Hermes as proegetes, bearded, with long hair, fillet, short chiton, embroidered chlamys, petasos, endromides, and caduceus, departing to right, looking back.
(b) Combat of Heracles and Kyknos: Heracles to right, with lion's skin and short purple chiton, quiver at back, draws sword out of sheath to attack Kyknos, who retreats to right, looking back, fully armed, with lofty visored helmet bound with a fillet, striped chiton, and shield with device of a tripod. Between them is Zeus to right, looking to left, interrupting the combat with both arms raised; he is bearded, with long hair curly in front, fillet, long striped chiton and himation, both embroidered. On the left is Athene to right, with long tresses, high-crested helmet, fillet, richly embroidered chiton with diploidion, and himation tied in front, shield on left arm, thrusting with a spear. On the right is Ares in a similar attitude, bearded, with visored helmet, short chiton and chlamys both embroidered, greaves, and a Boeotian shield, the device on which is a star of twelve points, in black and purple on white, between two white lions reared up and looking back.
- Production date
- 550BC-530BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 55.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
For the scene of side A, cf. Gerhard, A.V. 313, and for the subject see Foerster, Hochzeit d. Zeus und d. Hera.
- Location
- On display (G13/dc8)
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1861,0425.50
