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Amphora
Lysippides Painter, Exekiasca. 530 BCE
Penn Museum
Philadelphia, United States
Details
- Title: Amphora
- Creator: Exekias, Lysippides Painter
- Date Created: ca. 530 BCE
- Location Created: Orvieto, Etruria, Italy
- Physical Dimensions: 56.5 x 36 cm
- External Link: Penn Museum online collection
- Medium: Ceramic
- Object Number: MS3497
- Manufacture Location/Mint: Attica
- Descriptive Note: Amphora, Type A. A. Herakles and the Nemean Lion. Herakles at left grappling on ground with lion. Behind him Athena facing right. Behind the hindquarters of the lion is Iolaos. Inscriptions in the field beside the figures and one other at extreme left. Above palmette and lotus chain. B. Dionysos and Ariadne. In center, l. to r., Ariadne and Dionysos. To left a partially preserved dancing satyr (tip of tail preserved) and to right a dancing maenad. The legs of 2 children, perhaps Oinopion and Staphylus, hang from Ariadne's shoulders. Dionysos holds a grapevine and a kantharos. Inscriptions in field. Part of palmette and lotus chain preserved above. On A... (inscription), with room for probably four or five letters before the epsilon. Restored from many fragments, with parts in plaster. Recalls Exekias and the Lysippides Painter (Beazley). Exekias (Mommsen). Orvieto, Crocifisso del Tufo, Tomb 1
- Culture: Attic
- Credit Line: Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898
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