Collection: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Summary: | Side A: Herakles and Amazons. Side B: komos between swans. |
Ware: | Attic Black Figure |
Painter: | Attributed to the Timiades Painter |
Context: | From Vulci |
Date: | ca. 570 BC - ca. 560 BC |
Dimensions: | H. 0.394 m., D. Rim 0.518 m., Max. D. 0.244 m., D. Foot 0.151 m. |
Primary Citation: | |
Shape: | Tyrrhenian amphora |
Beazley Number: | 310045 |
Region: | Etruria |
Period: | Archaic |
Date Description:
From Vulci, Gsell Tomb 49, together with cup by Tleson, Boston 98.920.
Decoration Description:
Three figured registers on body, and palmette chain around neck.
Upper register: side A: Herakles and Amazons. At the center of the scene, Herakles, wearing lion skin over short chiton and a scabbard, grabs Andromache, queen of the Amazons, by the wrist and is about to dispatch her with a short sword. Andromache collapses as she attempts to flee to the right, looking over her shoulder. She wears a short-sleeved chiton with a belt, the chiton decorated with registers of animals and mythical creatures: a sphinx, three sirens and four felines facing alternately left and right. She is armed with an Attic helmet, a shield and a spear, and has a sword at her side. To the left of these, an Amazon, Panariste, defeats a Greek, Timiades. Panariste wears a belted chiton, greaves, an Attic helmet with a wheel below the crest, and carries a spear and a shield with a rosette. Timiades sinks to his knee, and supports himself on his shield; he is naked except for his greaves and helmet. To the right, Telamon attacks the Amazon Aenippe. Telamon is naked except for greaves and a Corinthian helmet, and holds a spear in his right arm and a Boeotian shield on his left. Aenippe wears a short chiton, a leather corslet, and a helmet, and carries a large shield, a spear, and has a sword at her side. All figures are labelled.
Side B: four naked male dancers moving in pairs to left and right, between two swans with raised wings.
Second register: side A: seated sphinx between sirens and panthers, looking in. Side B: goat flanked by two panthers facing in.
Third register: side A: ram walking to right, flanked by panthers. Side B: swan to right, flanked by panthers.
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