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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