/internal/media/dispatcher/819343/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailDrinking cup (kylix) depicting Herakles wrestling the Nemean lionabout 530–510 B.C.The Segment ClassHeight: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.); diameter: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.)Ceramic, Black FigureGift of Messrs. Robert E. Hecht, Jr. and George Allen60.11720Herakles is shown wrestling with the Nemean lion. His cloak, bow and quiver are hanging in the tree in the background. There are facing dolphins in three-line exergue, below the main scene.
Condition: Restored, pieces of interior missing.
One fragment of the scene, Louvre C 10413, which shows Herakles's back and buttocks, most of the bow, the quiver, the lower tree trunk and lower chlamys, is on loan to Boston.
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