File:Nessos Painter - ABV 4 1 - Herakles and Nessos - the three Gorgons - Athens NM 1002 - 06.jpg
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English: object type / vase shape: attic black figure neck-amphora
- description neck A: Herakles killing Nessos; inscriptions: ΗΕΡΑΚΛΕΣ, ΝΕΤΟΣ - handle: owls and swans - belly A: the three Gorgons running to the right (Medusa beheaded), eagle - below: row of dolphins swimming to the left - production place: Athens - painter: Nessos Painter (= Nettos Painter = Chimaira Painter) - period / date: late orientalizing / early archaic, ca. 620-600 BC - material: pottery (clay) - height: 122 cm - findspot: Athens, Piraeus Street, tomb - museum / inventory number: Athens, National Archaeological Museum 1002 (CC 657) - bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, 4.1, Para 2.6 - John Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases, London 1974, fig. 5.1-2 - Beazley Archive Pottery Database 300025 - Please note: The above museum permits photography of its exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes. If you intend to use the photo for any commercial aim, please contact the museum and ask for permission. |
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