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Attic Black-Figure Neck Amphora
Unknownabout 490 B.C.
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
A: Herakles wrestling the Nemean lion as a woman (veiled in himation) looks on. Garland hanging above. B: Nude youth to right between two mantled figures.
On the neck, three linked palmettes, alternately facing up and down. On the shoulder, tongue pattern.
Fragments are missing from sides A and B, and the foot is not preserved.
Details
- Title: Attic Black-Figure Neck Amphora
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: about 490 B.C.
- Location Created: Athens, Greece
- Physical Dimensions: 24.8 cm (9 3/4 in.)
- Type: Amphora
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Terracotta
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 81.AE.69
- Culture: Greek (Attic)
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
- Creator Display Name: Unknown
- Classification: Vessels (Containers)
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