File:Nessos Painter - ABV 7 - lions - Herakles freeing Prometheus - women - Athens NM 16384 - 15.jpg

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English: object type / vase shape: attic black figure skyphos krater on high conical stand

- description lid: 2 lions - body A: Herakles freeing Prometheus from the eagle - under the handles: geese and lion - stand: procession of women with flowers, 2 columns, palm tree - production place: Athens - painter: Nessos Painter (= Nettos Painter = Chimaira Painter) - period / date: late orientalizing / early archaic, ca. 630-610 BC - material: pottery (clay) - height: 110 cm - findspot: necropolis of Vari (Anagyrous), Attica - museum / inventory number: Athens, National Archaeological Museum 16384 - bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, 4 and 6, Para 3.13 - John Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases, London 1974, fig. 6 - Beazley Archive Pottery Database 350285

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