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Storage Jar (Neck Amphora) with Herakles Fighting the Nemean Lion

Storage Jar (Neck Amphora) with Herakles Fighting the Nemean Lion

Euphiletos Painter (attributed to)

The amphora is a common storage jar, used both for liquids such as water or oil and solids such as grain. The neck-amphora has the neck sharply set off from the body. On one side as one of his labors Herakles fights the Nemean Lion; he is watched by the goddess Athena with her shield and his nephew Iolaos. On the opposite the central warrior wears a Corinthian helmet and carries a shield, flanked on both sides by two young, barefoot horsemen.
Artist
Euphiletos Painter (attributed to)
(Greek, Attic, active ca. 530-520 B.C.E.)
Title
Storage Jar (Neck Amphora) with Herakles Fighting the Nemean Lion
Date
ca. 530 B.C.E.
Medium
Earthenware with black-figure decoration
Dimensions
12 3/8 x 8 1/4 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Frank
Accession No.
68.14.2
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Greece

Related

mid-1960s, sold by Hesperia Art (Philadelphia, PA) to Arthur J. and Edith Fairchild Frank (Milwaukee, WI); 21 October 1968, gifted by Arthur J. and Edith Fairchild Frank to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called the Chazen Museum of Art] [Last researched by Chazen staff 22 December 2021]

  • Powell, Barry B. "A Short Introduction to Classical Myth." Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.
  • "SchoolsMusuemsART (SMART) Project." Madison, WI: Madison Metropolitan School District, 2002.
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art." University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., 2000. p. 47, no. 28
  • University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. "The Classical World: Aegean Art." Art History Image Search, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Online. Mar 7, 2003. <http://facstaff.uww.edu/henigec/imagesearch/index.htm>;
  • Moon, Warren G. "A Black-figure Neck-Amphora by the Euphiletos Painter." In Elvehjem Art Center Bulletin/Annual Report 1971-1972. Madison: Elvehjem Art Center, 1972: 8-15. p. 8-15, no. 1, 2, 3
  • Elvehjem Art Center. "Bulletin 1970-1971." Madison: Elvehjem Art Center, 1971. pp. 8-15

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