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🎨 Attic Black-Figure Lekythos attributed to the Emporion Painter (CAMU Δ 646)

  • Date (ca. 480-460 BCE), attribution (the workshop of the Haimon Painter and specifically to the Emporion Painter); and identification of scene (may have been inspired by Aeschylus' The Lion): Α. Ζarkadas, Herakles and the Lion in the Nemean Cave. Two New Examples of a Rare Iconographic Representation of the Wellknown Myth, in L. Cappuccin i, C. Leypold, M. Mohr (edd.) Fragmenta Mediterranea. Studi in onore di Christoph Reusser. P & A Canellopoulos Museum Inventory 2021. Accession date (donated to Greek state in 1972).
  • Collection
    Μουσείο Παύλου και Αλεξάνδρας Κανελλοπούλου / Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens
    Artifact URL
    https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/artifacts-in-manto-technical-im
    Source subtype
    Vessel
    Period
    Early Classical (ca. 480-450 BCE)
    Place of Creation
    🌍 Attica
    Archaeological Context
    No place of recovery captured by MANTO
    UNESCO Status
    In a collection or on the market prior to ratification
    Has depictions of
    👤 Heracles  👤 the Nemean Lion  🏺 the Bow of Heracles  🏺 the Club of Heracles  🏛️ the Cave of the Nemean Lion (Argolid)
    Commentary
    Date (ca. 480-460 BCE), attribution (the workshop of the Haimon Painter and specifically to the Emporion Painter); and identification of scene (may have been inspired by Aeschylus' The Lion): Α. Ζarkadas, Herakles and the Lion in the Nemean Cave. Two New Examples of a Rare Iconographic Representation of the Wellknown Myth, in L. Cappuccin i, C. Leypold, M. Mohr (edd.) Fragmenta Mediterranea. Studi in onore di Christoph Reusser. P & A Canellopoulos Museum Inventory 2021. Accession date (donated to Greek state in 1972).
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