Obverse, Herakles and Kerberos at the house of Hades; meaningless inscriptions Reverse, Hermes and Athena; meaningless inscriptions
Kerberos, the mythical guard dog of Hades, is depicted with two heads. One head bites the loop of the leash; with the other, Kerberos catches the tail of Herakles' lion's skin in his jaws.
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Title:Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with double handles
Artist:Attributed to the Diosphos Painter
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 500 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions:H. 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) Diameter 3 15/16 in. (10 cm.)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1941
Object Number:41.162.178
Hoppin, James C. and Albert Eugene Gallatin. 1926. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, USA 1, Hoppin and Gallatin Collections. pp. 87–88, Gallatin pl. 39.2a–b, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
1928. Catalogue of the Dillwyn Parrish Collection of Greek and Egyptian Antiquities. July 5, 1928. lot 13.
Haspels, Caroline Henriette Emilie. 1936. Attic Black-Figured Lekythoi. no. 155, p. 240, Paris: E. de Boccard.
Chase, George H. and Mary Z. Pease. 1942. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. United States of America 8. Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections 1. p. 39, pl. 2a–b, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 74 n. 78, 216, pl. 56d, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1956. Attic Black-figure Vase-painters. pp. 50, 509, 703, no. 155, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Oliver-Smith, Philip. 1970. "Architectural Elements on Greek Vases before 400 B.C. Ph.D. diss." Ph.D. Diss. p. 289. New York University.
von Bothmer, Dietrich and Prof. Mary B. Moore. 1976. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. United States of America 16. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 4. Attic Black-Figured Neck-Amphorae. pl. 50, 5–6, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1988. Vol. 4: Eros-Herakles. "Hades," p. 386, no. 147, pl. 222, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
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