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M25.2 HERACLES & THE CRETAN BULL

Heracles & Cretan Bull | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa
Catalogue No. Tampa 86.85
Beazley Archive No. 352428
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Kylix
Painter Attributed to the Euergides Painter
Date ca 515 - 505 B.C.
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Side A: Heracles and the Nemean lion (see other image).
Side B: Heracles captures the Cretan bull as one of his twelve labours. The hero is naked and unarmed. His robe hangs from a tree behind the bull.

ARTICLES

Cretan Bull

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Heracles & Nemean Lion

M19.2 Nemean Lion