/internal/media/dispatcher/851995/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailTwo-handled jar (amphora) with Herakles driving a bull to sacrificeabout 525–520 B.C.the Andokides Painterthe Lysippides PainterHeight: 53.2 cm (20 15/16 in.)Ceramic, Black Figure and Red Figure (Bilingual)Henry Lillie Pierce Fund99.5381This amphora is decorated on both sides but in different painting techniques. One side has a scene depicted in the Red Figure style, and the other side shows the same scene in the Black Figure style. This type of decoration puts the vase into the so-called Bilingual group.
The traditional attributions for the painter is: the Black Figure (side A) is by the Lysippides Painter, and the Red Figure (side B) is by the Andokides Painter.
Both sides depict Herakles driving a bull to sacrifice, past a tree, holding his club in his right hand, and in his left the rope fastened round the horns of the bull, also a bundle of spits. He wears a short tunic (chitoniskos), a lionskin, a belt, has sword and quiver slung, by crossbands, at his left flank, carries two small wineskins, apparently empty, over his left arm. The bull's head is filleted with colorful ribbons, and the woollen fillet has the form commonly used for this purpose as for others, tied at intervals and the ends splayed.
Condition: Considerably restored.
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