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Two-handled jar (amphora) with struggle of Herakles and Apollo
Circle of Euthymides (Greek)
Greek
Archaic Period
about 510 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 65 cm (25 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Francis Warden Fund and funds by exchange from the Catharine Page Perkins Fund and the Julia Bradford Huntington James Fund
Accession Number63.1515
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionSide A: Struggle of Apollo and Herakles for the Delphic tripod. Apollo is shown on the right as a beardless youth, wearing his quiver on his back, and holding forth his bow. Herakles, holding the tripod over his shoulder in one hand and his characteristic club in the other, moves away to the left and looks back. Between them is a tall palm-tree. Both figures are labeled behind their backs: "Herakles" (HERAKLEOS), and "Apollo" (APPOLLONOS). Between the figures at the side of Apollo's leg is the inscription "beautiful" (KALOS).
Side B: A woman (possibly a maenad, a female devotee of the wine-god Dionysus) revels between two ithyphallic satyrs. While her elegant clothing and coiffed hair are unusual for the typically wild maenad, she carries two long ivy branches, which confirms her Dionysiac association.
Condition: Body broken (one break); foot rejoined and mended. Some in-painting.
Side B: A woman (possibly a maenad, a female devotee of the wine-god Dionysus) revels between two ithyphallic satyrs. While her elegant clothing and coiffed hair are unusual for the typically wild maenad, she carries two long ivy branches, which confirms her Dionysiac association.
Condition: Body broken (one break); foot rejoined and mended. Some in-painting.
Inscriptions"Herakles" (HERAKLEOS), and "Apollo" (APPOLLONOS). Between the figures is the inscription "beautiful" (KALOS).
From Left to Right
ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΣ
ΚΑΛΟΣ
ΑΠΟΛΛΟΝΟΣ
From Left to Right
ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΣ
ΚΑΛΟΣ
ΑΠΟΛΛΟΝΟΣ
Provenance1963, exhibited at Galerie Maspero, Paris [see note]; 1963, Münzen und Medaillen, A.G., Basel, Switzerland; 1963, sold by Münzen und Medaillen, A.G, to the MFA. (Accession date: October 17, 1963)
NOTE: Galerie Maspero, Le dessin dans l'art grec (March 27-June 15, 1963).
NOTE: Galerie Maspero, Le dessin dans l'art grec (March 27-June 15, 1963).