Kantharos hand-painted Heracles fighting against centaurs, Berlin Altes Museum, 19.5 cm high, 18.7 cm wide, 400 g
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Original of the Antikensammlung Berlin, Altes Museum
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Herakles versus Centaurs
Heracles (Hερακλες) has raised his sword against the centaur on the right side (Ασβολος - Asbolos) who is swinging a tree. Two centaurs gallop to the aid of their companion. They have appeared behind Heracles, the first (Πετραιος - Petraios) preparing to throw a large boulder at him, the second (Υλαιος retrograde - Ulaios) ready to hit him with a small tree. The centaurs are bearded, as is Heracles, who wears a short chiton under the coat of the Numeroan lion.
On the other side are Thetis and Achilleus and other
Heroes of the Trojan War
On the right side are Menelaus (MENELEOS) and Thetis (QETIS), Achilleus (AXILEUS), then Patroclus (PATROLOS), Achilleus' friend, then the cunning hero Odysseus (OLUTEN), and finally Menestheus (MENESQEUS). Menelaus and Odysseus have come to win Achilles for the Trojan War. Achilles and his mother Thetis face each other. Achilles holds a spear and raises his right hand to his mouth, palm inwards. Thetis, dressed in a purple Peplos, gestures with her right hand. Behind her stands Menelaus. Patroclus stands behind Achilles. His raised left hand is not preserved. All warriors are naked and barefoot. Menelaus and Odysseus are bearded.
The original of the Kantharos, made in 550 BC, is an exhibit of the Antikensammlung Berlin, Altes Museum, under inventory no. F1737. The Kantharos was found in the Etruscan necropolis Vulci, near the Bolsena Sea. More than 4,000 ancient Greek vases have been recovered from Vulci since 1857. It was fashionable among the Etruscans to use vases from Greece and to give them to their dead as burial objects.
This Kantharos is attributed to the Sokles painter, an Attic-red figure vase painter who worked in Athens in the middle of the 6th century BC.
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This product was added to our catalog on Sunday, November 25, 2018.