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H2.6 HERMES, HERACLES & ATHENA

Hermes, Heracles & Athena | Attic black figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley
Catalogue No. Mt Holyoke 1925.BS.II.3
Beazley Archive No. -
Ware Attic Black Figure
Shape Skyphos
Painter Attributed to the Theseus Painter
Date ca 500 B.C.
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Heracles is entertained by the gods Hermes and Athena. Hermes, wearing a petasos cap, stands on the left playing a flute. Heracles is seated a stool with his club resting against a leg. He wears a lion-skin cape and holds a cup in one hand. Athena, wearing a peaked helm, pours wine from an oinochoe jug. The painting perhaps depicts the hero's reception on Olympus following his apotheosis.

This image is montage of several photos of the vase.

ARTICLES

Hermes, Athena