Terracotta fragment of a stamnos (jar)
Obverse, Helmeted Athena, wearing her aegis, holding a round shield with a horse as a shield device over her left arm, and an oinochoe in her right hand, getting ready to pour a libation for Herakles; Herakles is at the left, and is wearing his lion skin over his chitoniskos; his right hand holds a phiale, and his left, holds his club?; to the right of Athena, is the head and upper torso of Hermes, whose right hand is raised; he wears a petasos and a chlamys; at the shoulder, a band of tongues; the panel ornament is a chain of pomegranates; Reverse; part of the band tongues from the shoulder and the right hand corner of the panel ornament (chain of pomegranates) is preserved; one handle is intact
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta fragment of a stamnos (jar)
- Period: Archaic
- Date: 500–480 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; red-figure
- Dimensions: 5 1/4 × 10 1/4 × 12 3/4 in. (13.3 × 26 × 32.4 cm)
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011
- Object Number: 2011.604.2.142
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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