File:Attic black figure lebes gamikos - ABV extra - Herakles and the Hydra - animals - Athens NM 12075 - 04.jpg

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English: object type / vase shape: Attic or Eretrian black figure lebes gamikos / loutrophoros / amphora with high neck and lid

- description neck A: charioteer in frontal chariot (quadriga) between 3 draped bearded men - neck B: lotos-flower between 2 confronted panthers - shoulder A: double palmette chain - shoulder B: animal frieze - body A: Hermes, goddess with twig (Athena?), Herakles with sword fighting the Lernean Hydra, Iolaos with sword participating in the fight, 3 goddesses in mantle - body B: lion and bull confronted - under each handle: siren - foot / stand: animal frieze - production place: Athens - painter: unattributed - period / date: high / ripe archaic, ca. 550 BC - material: pottery (clay) - findspot: Eretria - museum / inventory number: Athens, National Archaeological Museum 12075 - bibliography: Beazley Archive Pottery Database 9053246

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