VARIOUS PROPERTIES
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE AMPHORA
细节
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE AMPHORA
CIRCA 520-510 B.C.
The A side with Herakles and the Erymanthian boar, the third of the hero's Labors, in which Herakles prepares to hurl the great boar, which he has raised on to his left shoulder, on to Eurystheus, King of Mycenae, who has taken refuge in a large, partially buried pithos, while Athena looks on from the right, and the hero's companion Iolaos, holding the club, looks on from the left, the B side with a kitharode standing between two gesticulating women, a band of key above a band of lotus buds below each scene, rays on the foot, a band of red and black tongues on the shoulder, lotus-palmette chain on the neck, and a quatrefoil of palmettes, lotus buds, and spiralling tendrils below each handle, details in added red throughout, repaired and restored, 13 1/4in. (33.6cm.) high
CIRCA 520-510 B.C.
The A side with Herakles and the Erymanthian boar, the third of the hero's Labors, in which Herakles prepares to hurl the great boar, which he has raised on to his left shoulder, on to Eurystheus, King of Mycenae, who has taken refuge in a large, partially buried pithos, while Athena looks on from the right, and the hero's companion Iolaos, holding the club, looks on from the left, the B side with a kitharode standing between two gesticulating women, a band of key above a band of lotus buds below each scene, rays on the foot, a band of red and black tongues on the shoulder, lotus-palmette chain on the neck, and a quatrefoil of palmettes, lotus buds, and spiralling tendrils below each handle, details in added red throughout, repaired and restored, 13 1/4in. (33.6cm.) high