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M19.2 HERACLES & THE NEMEAN LION

Heracles & Nemean Lion | 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 wrestles the Nemean lion as one of his twelve labours, strangling the beast in a choke hold.
Side B: Heracles and the Cretan bull (see other image).

ARTICLES

Nemean Lion

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Heracles & Cretan Bull

M25.2 Cretan Bull