GROUP OF LONDON B 145, CIRCA 530 B.C.

A neck-amphora, also attributed to the Group of London B145, now in the British Museum, shares with the present example a Gigantomachy on one side and two combating warriors on the other. On both, a fully-armed Poseidon is leaping out of the chariot, with Athena standing beside the horses with her spear raised. A giant collapses below the rearing horse, his shield raised in a futile attempt to protect himself (see H.B. Walters, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, London, British Museum 4, pl. 62.1A-B). For another similar Gigantomachy also attributed to this Group, see no. 4 in S.J. Schwarz, Greek Vases in the National Museum of Natural History: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.