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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE GROUP OF BERKELEY 8.3376, CIRCA 520-500 B.C.
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA ATTRIBUTED TO THE GROUP OF BERKELEY 8.3376, CIRCA 520-500 B.C. The obverse with Athena between Herakles and Hermes, the goddess clad in an ankle-length dotted garment and armed in a high-crested helmet, a spear and a shield with a hippocamp as the blazon, the snakes from her aegis writhing below the edge of the shield, a deer beside her, Herakles to the left, wearing a short chiton, the skirt red, his quiver hanging from a baldric, his club raised over his left shoulder, Hermes to the right, moving right and looking back, wearing a short chiton, a chlamys, a petasos and winged boots, his kerykeion in his right hand; the reverse with Dionysos between a satyr and a maenad, the god at the center facing right, wearing a white ankle-length chiton and a dotted himation, a kantharos in his raised left hand, grape vines issuing from his right, looking back toward the maenad, moving left and looking back, clad in an ankle-length dotted peplos and a panther skin, a deer behind her, a satyr to the right, moving left and looking back, with a long beard and cloven hooves; palmette lotus chain on the neck, alternating red and black tongues on the shoulders, rays above the foot, lotus bud chain above, a quatrefoil of palmettes, lotus buds and tendrils below the handles, X's in the center; details in added red and white 16 1/16 in. (40.8 cm.) high