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拍品專文
On one side, Herakles mounts a block-shaped bema, kithara in hand, to serenade Athena and Dionysos, who sit on either side looking on. The hero is clad in his lion skin over a short chiton and is armed with a quiver, bow and sword. His kithara has details in added white, perhaps simulating ivory. The gods sit on folding stools, Athena to the right, Dionysos to the left. Athena wears a chiton, himation, snaky aegis, and crested helmet, and holds a spear in her left hand. Dionysos wears a chiton and himation, with an ivy wreath in his hair. He holds the stem of a kantharos in his left hand and a forked vine in his right that branches out behind the figures. The other side shows a youthful horseman, depicted frontally, flanked by two hoplites both accompanied by a hound. The warriors are armed with greaves, crested helmets, and circular shields, that to the left with a bearded serpent as the blazon, that to the right with a ketos. Details throughout on both sides are in added red and white.
The earliest examples of Herakles Kitharoidos are by the Lysippides Painter, who may have invented the scene. The subject was also favored by the Acheloos Painter (see Allen, op. cit., 1999, pp. 27-33). For the horseman, compare the artist's name-piece in the Antikensammlungen, Munich (J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, p. 341, no.1).
The earliest examples of Herakles Kitharoidos are by the Lysippides Painter, who may have invented the scene. The subject was also favored by the Acheloos Painter (see Allen, op. cit., 1999, pp. 27-33). For the horseman, compare the artist's name-piece in the Antikensammlungen, Munich (J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, p. 341, no.1).