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Attic black figure neck amphora.
On the neck of an amphora in the national archaeological museum of athens the painter depicted nessos fighting heracles the figure is also marked with the name netos the attic dialect form of the name nessos.
On the left stands athena and on the right artemis the amphora was a typical shape in greek pottery and the designs on this example were commonly used motifs.
In athenian black figure examples can be ovoid notably the so called tyrrhenian amphorae which seem to have been made for an etruscan market but the standard type has a more obvious shoulder perhaps inspired at some stage by east greek shapes.
Athens greece physical dimensions.
The victorious warrior would try to strip the armor from the fallen opponent and perhaps.
In the lindenau museum curator victoria kubale looks at an attic black figure neck amphora with sphinxes from the special exhibition the mysterious sphinx.
There was then a struggle over the corpse.
Attic black figure neck amphora.
Terracotta source credit line.
23 4 x 15 5 cm 9 3 16 x 6 1 8 in external link.
Paul getty museum los angeles united states.
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Paul getty museum villa collection malibu california.
Medea group greek attic active 530 510 b c 36 2 23 5 cm 14 1 4 9 1 4 in 71 ae 441.
Unknown connected with the class of cabinet des médailles 218 date.
An attic black figure neck amphora 540 530 bce depicting hercules wearing his lion skin and engaged in one of his celebrated 12 labours the hero wrestles the hind of keryneia and is breaking off one of its golden horns.
Attic black figure neck amphora creator.
The neck amphora prefigured in mycenean 14th century bc pottery and remodelled as a main shape in the protogeometric style 1000 c.
Beazley the authority on attic vase painting attributed the name the nessos painter to this artist later after new finds in athens and in a cemetery outside.
900 bc has about 12 distinct shape variations determined as much by utilitarian as by aesthetic considerations noteworthy are the nolan type from nola italy some of which had.
The shape is old recognisable among geometric and protoattic vases.
About 500 480 b c.
In the mythological battles of the greeks the conflict did not end when a warrior killed his opponent.
The exhibition on the opera oedipe is provided by the national museum george enescu bucharest and can be seen from 07 02.
The neck amphora is identifiable by its clearly defined neck.