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Drinking cup (kylix) depicting Herakles wrestling the Nemean lion
Greek
Archaic Period
about 530–510 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Black Figure
Dimensions
Height: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.); diameter: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Messrs. Robert E. Hecht, Jr. and George Allen
Accession Number60.1172
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
CVA Boston 2, pl. 106, 04-06.
DescriptionHerakles 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.
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.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Robert E. Hecht, Jr. and George Allen (said to come from Cervetri); gift of Robert E. Hecht, Jr. and George Allen to MFA, October 13, 1960; the fragment on loan from the Louvre is from the Campana Collection.