Attic black-figure amphora showing Herakles wrestling with Triton
Gallery Location
Gallery of Greece
Maker
Attributed to the Circle of the Lysippides Painter
Medium
Wheel-thrown earthenware, slip-painted with incised detail
Geography
Made in Athens, Greece; found in Tarquinia, Etruria, Italy
Date
about 530-520 BC
Period
Greek Archaic period
Dimensions
46.4 x 29.8 cm
Object number
919.5.19
Credit Line
Sigmund Samuel Collection
Cataloguer
Dr. John W. Hayes
ROM Staff, 1968-1992
Cataloguer
Dr. Kate Cooper
ROM Staff, 2012 to present
Collection
Department
Art & Culture: Ancient Greece & Rome
Bibliography
This Athenian Type A amphora is decorated in black-figure technique. On one side is Herakles, wearing his lion skin, wrestling with Triton, a god with a sea-serpent body. Surrounding the scene are dolphins and an octopus. On the other side is a departure scene showing a man, wearing a cloak and animal-skin cap and carrying two hunting spears, leading a horse away from a woman. On the base of the vase is a dipinto mark. This vase has been attributed to the Circle of the Lysippides Painter by Hayes and Ahlberg Cornell.
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