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Summary

Artist
English: Diosphos Painter
Français : Peintre de Diosphos
Description
English: Heracles fighting Cycnus. Side A from an Attic black-figured neck-amphora. From Nola
Français : Héraclès affrontant Cycnos. Face A d'une amphore à col attique à figures noires. Provenance : Nola.
Date between circa 500 and circa 490 BC
Dimensions H. 18.30 cm; D. 11 cm
institution QS:P195,Q19675
Current location
Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully, 1st floor, room 43
Accession number
F 385
Credit line Durand Collection, 1825
Inscriptions
  • Διὸς παῖ(ς) (left)
  • hερακλ{λ}ες (bottom)
  • Κυκ(ν)ος in retrograde script (top)
References
  • E. Haspels, Attic Black-Figured Lekythoi 97, 238/130
  • H. R. Immerwahr, Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI) 6375
Source/Photographer User:Bibi Saint-Pol , own work, 15 June 2007

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