Herakles and Α Θ H Ν Α Ι Α
Athena pouring wine for Heracles. On the left Heracles, a youthful nude figure (head broken away), leans forward, resting his body against the end of his club, on which is his lion-skin; the top of the club rests on a raised hillock, from which a plant sprouts on the right. He holds out in his right hand a cantharos towards Athene, who extends with her right a fluted oinochoe (part broken away); her spear rests against her left shoulder, and she wears a long sleeved chiton, himation falling in pteryges at right side, the aegis with scaly surface, snake-fringe and Gorgoneion, and a helmet tilted back; her long hair is tied in a club at the nape of the neck and fastened with a fillet. Beside her on left her name, ΑΘΕΝΑΙΑ (retr.), 'Αθηναία.
(1993 DIA digitalized by Reflecta DigitDia 6000)
Athenian red-figured white-ground oinochoe
Height: 26.67 cm.
About 430 BC;
From Volci, Etruria;
London, The British Museum - Inv. No. 1837,0609.51
Herakles and Α Θ H Ν Α Ι Α
Athena pouring wine for Heracles. On the left Heracles, a youthful nude figure (head broken away), leans forward, resting his body against the end of his club, on which is his lion-skin; the top of the club rests on a raised hillock, from which a plant sprouts on the right. He holds out in his right hand a cantharos towards Athene, who extends with her right a fluted oinochoe (part broken away); her spear rests against her left shoulder, and she wears a long sleeved chiton, himation falling in pteryges at right side, the aegis with scaly surface, snake-fringe and Gorgoneion, and a helmet tilted back; her long hair is tied in a club at the nape of the neck and fastened with a fillet. Beside her on left her name, ΑΘΕΝΑΙΑ (retr.), 'Αθηναία.
(1993 DIA digitalized by Reflecta DigitDia 6000)
Athenian red-figured white-ground oinochoe
Height: 26.67 cm.
About 430 BC;
From Volci, Etruria;
London, The British Museum - Inv. No. 1837,0609.51