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M12.2 HERACLES & CERBERUS

Heracles & Cerberus | Attic bilingual vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Musée du Louvre, Paris
Catalogue No. Louvre F204
Beazley Archive No. 200011
Ware Attic Bilingual
Shape Amphora
Painter Attributed to the Andokides Painter and Lysippides Painter
Date ca 520 - 510 B.C.
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Side A: Heracles, kneeling before the gates of Hades, chains the two-headed, guard dog Cerberus. He is accompanied in his labour by the goddess Athena (not shown). The hero wears a lion-skin cape and quiver of arrows, and holds a club and chain in his hands.
Side B: Dionysus, Ariadne & Satyrs (see other image).

This image is a montage of three photos of the vase.

ARTICLES

Cerberus

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Dionysus & Ariadne

K12.12 Dionysus