M23.5 HERACLES & THE ERYMANTHIAN BOAR
| Museum Collection | Musée du Louvre, Paris |
|---|---|
| Catalogue No. | Louvre F59 |
| Beazley Archive No. | 302247 |
| Ware | Attic Black Figure |
| Shape | Amphora, Neck |
| Painter | Attributed to the Manner of Lysippides Painter or to the Mastos Group |
| Date | ca 510 B.C. |
| Period | Archaic |
DESCRIPTION
Side A: Heracles delivers the Erymanthian boar to King Eurystheus as one of his twelve labours. The hero wears a lion-skin cape and has a quiver strapped to his back. He holds the boar upside-down on his shoulder. The terrified king cowers inside a buried pithos jar. The hero's patron-goddess Athena, wearing a crested helm and the serpent-trimmed aegis cloak, and bearing a shield and spear, witnesses the scene.
Side B: Dionysus and Ariadne (not shown).