MANNER OF THE LATE BERLIN PAINTER, CIRCA 470-465 B.C.

Depicted on this splendid Nolan amphora is the struggle over the Delphic tripod. One side shows the hero Herakles, his lion skin tied across his chest, moving to the left but looking back, the tripod in his left hand, his club raised over his head in his right. The other side shows the god Apollo in pursuit, with his bow in his left hand. The subject was similarly treated by the Berlin Painter himself on an amphora of Panathenaic shape now in the Martin von Wagner Museum, Wurzburg, p. 376, no. B8 in J.M. Padgett, ed., The Berlin Painter and His World.