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amphora

Object Type
Museum number: 1888,0208.126
Description: Three joined sherds of black-figure painted pottery amphora showing Herakles strangling the Nemean lion. Heracles to right, nude; the lion's left hind-leg is pressed against Heracles' left leg; the heads of both are lost. Purple on mane of lion. White as narrow stripe along its belly. The painting, but not the incision, of the fore-paw has been omitted.
Cultures/periods: Attic; Archaic Greek
Production date: 550BC-540BC
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tell Dafana, "Qasr", east annex (C), chamber 19 A, bench on west side
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 13 centimetres (as restored); Width: 11 centimetres (max)
Curator's comments: BM Cat. Vases The composition is the upright one, cf. BM Vase Β160.; Findspot number '19A W' scratched on the item
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B129.7); CVA British Museum 8 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 13, British Museum 8 (Pl. GB 608, 11); Weber 2012 / Untersuchungen zur archaischen griechischen Keramik aus anderen ägyptischen Fundorten (TD 44); Leclère and Spencer 2014 / Tell Dafana Reconsidered: The Archaeology of an Egyptian Frontier Town (p.208)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical deity; mammal
Associated names: Representation of: Herakles/Hercules; Representation of: Nemean Lion
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0208.126