Herkles vs. Centaurs - I
Kantharos side B): Herakles battles three centaurs; Side A): Achilles and Patroklos.
Herakles (Hερακλες) has raised his sword against the centaur on the right (Ασβολος – Asbolos) who brandishes a tree. Two centaurs gallop to the aid of their companion. They have come up behind Herakles, the first (Πετραιος - Petraios) preparing to heave a large boulder at him, the second (Υλαιος retrograde - Ulaios) ready to strike him with a small tree. The centaurs are bearded, as is Herakles, who wears a short chiton under his lion skin. His empty sword sheath hangs at his side.
Source: www.perseus.tufts.edu
CARC / CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
Attic black figure kantharos
Attributed to the Sokles
Archaic Period
Ca. 550 BC
From Vulci
Berlin, Altes Museum – Inv. F 1737
Herkles vs. Centaurs - I
Kantharos side B): Herakles battles three centaurs; Side A): Achilles and Patroklos.
Herakles (Hερακλες) has raised his sword against the centaur on the right (Ασβολος – Asbolos) who brandishes a tree. Two centaurs gallop to the aid of their companion. They have come up behind Herakles, the first (Πετραιος - Petraios) preparing to heave a large boulder at him, the second (Υλαιος retrograde - Ulaios) ready to strike him with a small tree. The centaurs are bearded, as is Herakles, who wears a short chiton under his lion skin. His empty sword sheath hangs at his side.
Source: www.perseus.tufts.edu
CARC / CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
Attic black figure kantharos
Attributed to the Sokles
Archaic Period
Ca. 550 BC
From Vulci
Berlin, Altes Museum – Inv. F 1737