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Black-Figure Neck-Amphora (Storage Vessel): Herakles and Nemean Lion (A); Dionysos, Satyrs, and Maenads (B)
The collection record classifies this work as ceramic. It is dated 515–510 BCE. Recorded culture or place: Greek, Attic.
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- Museum title
- Black-Figure Neck-Amphora (Storage Vessel): Herakles and Nemean Lion (A); Dionysos, Satyrs, and Maenads (B)
- Date
- 515–510 BCE
- Culture / origin
- Greek, Attic
- Materials and technique
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- Overall: 39.8 cm (15 11/16 in.); Diameter: 29 cm (11 7/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Painter of Berlin 1899 (Greek, Attic)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1970.16
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The neck-amphora, one of the most popular vase shapes in Archaic Athens, provided painters with ample space for both figural and ornamental decoration. Herakles, the greatest of Greek heroes, performs his most famous deed on the obverse, wrestling the Nemean lion. His patron goddess Athena, together with his nephew Iolaos, holding the hero’s club, stand by. On the other side is an unrelated scene, showing the wine god Dionysos with dancing maenads and satyrs. Abundant ornament covers other areas: stylized lotus blossom and palmette chains on the neck; intricately linked palmettes and lotuses beneath each handle; and a key pattern, linked lotus buds, and rays on the lower body.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund · CC0
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