chous
- Museum number
- 1873,0820.361
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured chous.
Satyr as Heracles in the Garden of Hesperides. On the right is a tree with four upright leafy branches, on three of which three oinochoai hang; around it a large snake is coiled, which darts its tongue angrily at the club which the Satyr brandishes against it; he strides forward to the attack, in a mock-heroic attitude, extending his left covered with a wine-skin, suspended round his neck, as a shield; he has a short bushy beard and rough hair radiating from the crown.
Drawing free and spirited. Purple leaves of tree and tongue of snake. Brown hair of Satyr and markings of snake and askos. Eye in transitional type. In the original sketch the left leg was drawn further to left, and the left arm seems to have been raised towards the tree. Below, a strip of sets of three to four maeanders broken by red cross squares; above, a strip of anthemion pattern. At lower part of handle, an inverted palmette.
- Production date
- 460BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 24.13 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Heydemann, Humorist. Vasenb. pl. 1; Bull. dell’ Inst. 1868, p. 219 (Helbig).
For a series of similar scenes, cf. Jahn in Philologies, xxvii. p. 20.
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc51)
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1873,0820.361
