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Side A: Herakles and Deianeira

Collection: London, British Museum
Summary: Side A: Herakles and Deianeira with the poisoned shirtSide B: woman
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Painter: In the manner of the Washing Painter
Context: From Nola
Date: ca. 440 BC - ca. 430 BC
Dimensions:

H. 0.145 m.
Primary Citation: ARV2, 1134.7; Beazley Addenda 1, 163; Beazley Addenda 2, 333
Shape: Pelike
Beazley Number: 215017
Region: Campania
Period: Classical

Decoration Description:

Side A: To the left is Herakles, walking to the right. He is nude, and carries his lion skin flung over his left arm. His right arm is extended to receive the garment from Deianeira. She stands in profile to the left, offering the garment with her right hand. She wears a peplos of crinkly fabric, and a cloak with black border over it. On the ground between the figures lies Herakles' club.

Side B: A standing woman wearing a peplos.

On both sides there is a horizontal border with an egg-and dart pattern above and below the figural panel.

Sources Used:

Boardman 1989, fig. 7; A. Greifenhagen "Zeichnungen nach attisch rotfiguren Vasen im Deutschen Archäologischen Institut, Rom" AA 2 1977, 208, fig. 7

Other Bibliography:

Birchall & Corbett 1974, fig. 36; B