Amphora with Apollo and other gods

Antimenes Painter (active ca. 530-ca. 510 BCE) (attributed to)

Item type:

vessel

Date of creation:

ca. 530-520 BCE

Technique / Medium:

black figure painting

Place of creation:

Attica (Ellás)

School:

Attic

Description

Side A: In the center of the composition, Hercules fights the lion of Nemea; behind him, Athena with Attic helmet and lance in her left hand. In front of Hercules, Iolaus is bearded and holding a sword and a club; a female figure in peplos completes the scene.
Side B: Group of five gods: in the centre, Apollo (in profile) playing the kithara; in front of him, Artemis and Hermes; behind him, Poseidon and Amphitrite.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Kithara [4940]

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

Santarelli, Cristina. "The collections of Greek and Italiot pottery of the Museo di Antichità, Turin", Music in Art 30/1-2 (2005) 244-254. RILM 2005-7129.

Santarelli, Cristina. "Iconografia musicale nella ceramica greca e italiota del Museo di Antichità di Torino", Miscellanea di studi 5, ed. by Alberto Basso (Torino: Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte, 2003) 7-40.

RIdIM record id

3016