• Part of bowl with Herakles and Nereus



Part of bowl with Herakles and Nereus
Part of bowl with Herakles and Nereus

Part of bowl with Herakles and Nereus

Π2071
Clay
Part of vessel
Length: 28 cm.
Praisos
Archaic period:
Early 6th c. BC:
Gallery:
XV
Case:
155
Exhibition thematic unit:
Geometric - Archaic - Classical period (10th-4th c. BC). Cities and Sanctuaries
Sanctuaries
Description
Bowl sherd with scene of Herakles wrestling Nereus. The hero is depicted in profile, with the lower body of the sea-god Nereus, who had the head and chest of a man, the body of a serpent and the tail of a fish. There theme of Herakles fighting sea-monsters appears in Attic vase-painting in the 7th c. BC, while the monster’s shape has its roots in the Near Eastern iconography that came to the Greek world in the Orientalising period. There is a male equestrian figure on the inside of the sherd.
Bibliography:
J.H. Hopkinson, Annual of the British School at Athens X 1903-1904, p. 138 Doro Levi, Early Hellenic Pottery of Crete, Princeton 1945, p. 30, pl. XXIX.
Author:
M. K.


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