Terracotta aryballos (oil flask)
Herakles attacking a centaur, probably Nessos
The Otterloo Painter favored a type of aryballos with a flattened bottom. The narrative, mythological subject is unusually ambitious in his work. The centaur Nessos offered to help Deianeira, Herakles' wife, ford a stream and, in so doing, attacked her. Herakles here draws his sword against the aggressor.
The Otterloo Painter favored a type of aryballos with a flattened bottom. The narrative, mythological subject is unusually ambitious in his work. The centaur Nessos offered to help Deianeira, Herakles' wife, ford a stream and, in so doing, attacked her. Herakles here draws his sword against the aggressor.
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta aryballos (oil flask)
- Artist: Attributed to the Otterlo Painter
- Period: Middle Corinthian
- Date: ca. 595–570 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Corinthian
- Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
- Dimensions: H. 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm)
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906
- Object Number: 06.1021.20
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Signed by Nearchos as potter
ca. 570 BCE
4th century BCE
late 10th–early 9th century BCE
Attributed to a painter of the Princeton Group
ca. 540–530 BCE
4th quarter of the 6th century BCE
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