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拍品专文
On the body of this large lekythos, Athena offers a libation to Herakles. The goddess wears her aegis over a patterned garment, holding an oinochoe in her raised hand and a spear in the other. The hero is shown leaning on his club, the lionskin tied at his chest, receiving the libation from Athena in a kantharos held in his right hand; in his lowered left hand he holds a fruit.
The scene is repeated on another lekythos by the Painter of the Yale Lekythos, now in the Musées Royaux in Brussels, p. 659, no. 41 in J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, second edition. According to J. Boardman (pp. 152-153 in LIMC, vol. V), “the most intimate of the scenes between hero and goddess involve more specific acts of either libation or a handshake.” Herakles’ pose “is a restful one, possibly even indicating tiredness” and may suggest that the libation signifies his welcoming to Mount Olympus after the completion of his Labors.
The scene is repeated on another lekythos by the Painter of the Yale Lekythos, now in the Musées Royaux in Brussels, p. 659, no. 41 in J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, second edition. According to J. Boardman (pp. 152-153 in LIMC, vol. V), “the most intimate of the scenes between hero and goddess involve more specific acts of either libation or a handshake.” Herakles’ pose “is a restful one, possibly even indicating tiredness” and may suggest that the libation signifies his welcoming to Mount Olympus after the completion of his Labors.