Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Herakles and Apollo contesting the Delphic tripod, with Artemis and Athena
A favored subject during the third quarter of the sixth century B.C. was the struggle between Herakles and Apollo for the Delphic tripod. The most significant depiction in the Museum's collection appears on a very early red-figure amphora of about 530 B.C. signed by the potter Andokides; it is exhibited in the Greek galleries on the main floor. The lekythos shows a simpler variant of the same subject, complete with the inclusion of white slip, here limited to the shoulder.
A favored subject during the third quarter of the sixth century B.C. was the struggle between Herakles and Apollo for the Delphic tripod. The most significant depiction in the Museum's collection appears on a very early red-figure amphora of about 530 B.C. signed by the potter Andokides; it is exhibited in the Greek galleries on the main floor. The lekythos shows a simpler variant of the same subject, complete with the inclusion of white slip, here limited to the shoulder.
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
- Artist: Attributed to the manner of the Sappho Painter
- Period: Late Archaic
- Date: ca. 500–490 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
- Dimensions: H. 7 1/16 in. (18 cm); diameter of body 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm); diameter of mouth 1 9/16 in. (3.9 cm)
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1966
- Object Number: 66.11.4
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Greek, Attic
1st quarter of the 5th century BCE
Sappho Painter
ca. 500–490 BCE
Sappho Painter
early 5th century BCE
Sappho Painter
ca. 500–490 BCE
Sappho Painter
ca. 500 BCE
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