AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE SKYPHOS ATTRIBUTED TO THE CHC-GROUP

CIRCA 500 B.C.

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE SKYPHOS ATTRIBUTED TO THE CHC-GROUP
CIRCA 500 B.C.
Sides A and B: Herakles wrestling with the Triton, flanked by fleeing Nereids, a leaping dolpin under each handle
Double row of dots under the rim and single row above the foot, details incised and in added red
4.3/8 in. (11 cm.) high

Lot Essay

During one of his Twelve Labours to find his way to the Garden of the Hesperides in order to take the Golden Apples, Herakles wrestled with Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea, who was half-man half-fish. By the middle of the 6th Century B.C. the monster changes identity and becomes known as Triton. Cf. J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, New York, 1978, p. 619, nos. 62-66 for similar.

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