A r c h a i c   V a s e s   of   A t h e n a      Archaic Vases     Amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: warrior leaving home, Side B: assemblage of warriors and Gods, Painter of Berlin 1686, Anonymous Collection, Anonymous (Moon No. 32) Panathenaic amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Athena, Side B: flute player between two judges, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Austin 1980.32 Tyrrhenian amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Birth of Athena, Side B: Fight, Below: rows of animals, Cyllenius Painter,  Etruria, Antikenmuseen, Berlin, Berlin F 1704 Belly amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Hercules and the lion,  Side B: Demophon and Acamas, Execias, Etruria, Antikenmuseen, Berlin, Berlin F 1720 Amphora, Attic Red Figure, Side A: Hercules and Apollo struggling for the tripod, Side B: wrestling, Andocides Painter, Etruria, Antikenmuseen, Berlin,, Berlin F 2159 Calyx, Attic Red Figure, Interior: Achilles tending the wounded Patroclus, Sides A and B: Hercules entering the Olympus, Cleophrades Painter, Etruria, Antikenmuseen, Berlin, Berlin F 2278  Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Sides A and B: horse protome on panel, dolphin on neck, Painter H1, Etruria, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington 74.10.1 Panel amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: birth of Athena, Side B: frontal quadriga, Group E, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 00.330  Psycter, Attic Red Figure, Four groups of athletes training in the palaestra,  Phintias, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 01.8019 Plate, Attic Red Figure, Tondo: Hercules and Cerberus, Paseas (The Cerberus Painter), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 01.8025 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Athena and Poseidon, Side B: Warriors setting out, Under each handle: Dionysus, Amasis Painter, Etruria, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 01.8026 Amphora, Attic Bilingual, Side A: Achilles and Ajax playing, red figure, Side B: same, black figure, Lysippides Painter and Andocides Painter, Etruria, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 01.8037 Panathenaic amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Gigantomachy with Hercules and Zeus in a chariot, Side B: Gigantomachy with Ares (?) and Poseidon, Three-Line Group, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 01.8059 Hydria, Attic Red Figure, Hercules and Cerberus, Berlin Painter, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 03.838 Cup, Attic Red Figure, Fragmentary, Exterior: Eros, Euthymides, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 10.203 Lecythus, Attic Red Figure, Cows led to sacrifice, Gales Painter, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,  Boston 13.195 Hydria, Attic Black Figure, Body: Hercules and Cerberus, Shoulder: Warriors fighting, and women watching, Manner of the Lysippides Painter, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 28.46 Hydria, Attic Black Figure, Achilles dragging Hector past the tomb of Patroclus, Antiope Group, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 63.473 Eye cup, Attic Black Figure, Athena fighting giants around each handle, Triton in the tondo, Follower of Execias, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois,  Champaign 70.8.1 Amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Hercules and the lion, Side B: combat, Painter of Berlin 1686, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 1978.114 Dinus, Attic Black Figure, Surface of rim: frieze of warriors and heroes, Interior of rim: five ships sailing to the right, Circle of the Antimenes Painter, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland 71.46 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Apollo, Athena, and Dionysus, side B: Dionysus and maenads, Leagros Group, Etruria, Putnam Museum, Davenport AR 47.58 Lecythus, Attic Black Figure, Introduction of Hercules to Olympus, Edinburgh Painter, Collection of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., San Antonio, Denman Collection (Shapiro No. 26) Volute crater, Attic Black Figure, In six registers: the Wedding of Peleus and Thetis; Achilles pursuing Troilos; Return of Hephaestus; the Calydonian Boar hunt; Theseus on Crete; Funeral games of Patroclus; Pygmies and Cranes; etc., Cleitias, Etruria, Archaeological Museum, Florence, Florence 4209 Eye cup, Attic Black Figure, Tondo: gorgon, Exterior, both sides: Athena, Hermes, warrior, and a child, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Frank, Frank Collection (Moon No. 59) Calyx crater, Attic Red Figure, Return of Hephaestus, with Dionysus and satyrs, Cleophrades Painter, Apulia, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Harvard 1960.236 Amphora, Attic Black Figure, Harnessing of a chariot, Antimenes Painter, Attica, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Harvard 1960.308 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Theseus and the Minotaur, Side B: Hercules and the Nemean Lion, Near Execias, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Harvard 1960.312 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar, Side B: Warriors leaving home, Acheloos Painter, Etruria, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Harvard 1960.314 Plate, Attic Black Figure, Athena battling the giant Enceladus, Segment Class, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston 37-19 Dinus, Attic Black Figure, Wedding of Peleus and Thetis; animal friezes, Sophilos, British Museum, London, London 1971.11-1.1 Panathenaic amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Athena striding, Neck A: siren, Side B: Chariot race, Neck B: owl, Burgon Group, Attica, British Museum, London, London B 130 Panathenaic amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Athena, Side B: Pentathlon, Euphiletus Painter, Etruria, British Museum, London, London B 134 Panathenaic amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Athena with Hermes and unidentified man, Side B: The winner in a horse race, Swing Painter, Etruria, British Museum, London, London B 144 Belly amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Hercules and Eurystheus, Side B: warriors and archer leaving home, Manner of the Antimenes Painter, Etruria, British Museum, London, London B 161 Belly amphora, Attic Bilingual, Side A (BF): Achilles and Ajax playing, Side B (RF): Hercules and the lion, Andocides Painter, Etruria, British Museum, London, London B 193 Hydria, Attic Black Figure, Women at fountain, Predella, lions and boars, Shoulder: Hercules and Cycnus, A.D. Painter, British Museum, London, London B 329 Volute crater, Attic Black Figure, Body in black, Lower zone of neck, Side A: Hercules and Cycnus, Side B: Fight, with chariots, Lydus, British Museum, London, London B 364 Calyx, Attic Black Figure, Exterior Side A: procession of hoplites leading horses. Side B: Perseus, Hermes, and Athena in flight; three Gorgons pursuing. Interior: hoplite charging, C Painter, British Museum, London, London B 380 Lip cup, Attic Black Figure, Exterior Side A: Introduction of Hercules to Olympus. Side B: Birth of Athena, Phrynus Painter, Etruria, British Museum, London, London B 424 Oinochoe, Attic Black Figure, Body: Hercules and the Erymanthian boar, Athena, Lysippides Painter, British Museum, London, London B 492 Belly amphora, Attic Red Figure, Side A: Hercules and Apollo fighting for the tripod, Side B: Man with crab on shield, man in leopard suit, old man with staff, Dicaius Painter, British Museum, London, London E 255 Tripod cothon, Attic Black Figure, Side A: birth of Athena, Side B: judgment of Paris, Side C: wedding of Zeus and Hera, C Painter, Boeotia, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Louvre CA 616 Dinus and stand, Attic Black Figure, Shoulder: A, Hercules and Cycnus; B, Perseus beheading Medusa, Lower panels: animal friezes, Gorgon Painter, Etruria, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Louvre E 874 Amphora, Attic Bilingual, Side A: Hercules and Cerberus (RF), Side B: Dionysus with maenad and satyrs (BF), Andocides Painter and Lysippides Painter, Etruria, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Louvre F 204  Amphora, Attic Red Figure, Side A: Fight, with Athena and Hermes watching, Side B: Citharode, Andocides Painter, Etruria, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Louvre G 1 Hydria, Attic Black Figure, Main panel: departure of Hercules for Olympus, Shoulder: two chariots chasing a giant, Priam Painter, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison 68.14.1 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, A: Ajax and Achilles gaming, with Athena, B: warrior between old men, Near the Medea Group, Attica, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, Malibu 71.AE.441 Calyx crater, Attic Red Figure, Athena, Euphronius, Attica, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, Malibu 77.AE.86 Hydria, Attic Black Figure, Hercules and the Nemean lion; Apollo and Hercules, Lycomedes Painter, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, Malibu 86.AE.114 Amphora, Black Figure, Hercules battling Cycnus while Athena, Hermes, Ares, and Aphrodite look on, Neck: confronted lions, Lower Register: Standing youth between seated lions, flanked by sirens, Painter of Getty 86.AE.52, Euboea, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, Malibu 86.AE.53 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Achilles and Ajax gaming, with Athena standing between them, Leagros Group, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, Malibu 86.AE.81 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Hercules, Side B: Cavalrymen and hoplite, Bareiss Painter, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, Malibu 86.AE.85 Amphora, Attic Red Figure, Side A: Athena, armed, beside an altar, Side B: Athena with helmet in Her hand, beside an altar, Nicoxenus Painter, Campania, University Museums, University of Mississippi, Mississippi 1977.3.115 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Hercules and the Cretan bull, Side B: Hermes, Dionysus, and one Goddess, Near the Antimenes Painter, Etruria, University Museums, University of Mississippi, Mississippi 1977.3.61a and b Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Hercules and the Nemean Lion, flanked by Athena and Hermes, Side B: Dionysus and Ariadne reclining on couch, satyr, Near the Priam Painter, University Museums, University of Mississippi, Mississippi 1977.3.62 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Hercules and the Boar, Side B: Woman between warriors, Etruria, University Museums, University of Mississippi, Mississippi 1977.3.63  Olpe, Attic Black Figure, Dionysus and maenad, Painter of Sevres 100, Attica, University Museums, University of Mississippi, Mississippi 1977.3.76 Scyphus, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Hercules regaled by Athena, Side B: the same, Theseus Painter, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Mount Holyoke 1925.BS.II.3 Amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Ajax and Cassandra, Side B: Frontal chariot, Group E, Archaic, Etruria, Antikensammlungen, Munich, Munich 1380 Amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Judgment of Paris, Side B: Recovery of Helen, Related to the Antimenes Painter, Antikensammlungen, Munich, Munich 1392 Amphora, Attic Black Figure, Etruria, Side A: Hercules and Iolaus in a chariot, with Athena and Hermes, Side B: Comus, Leagros Group, Antikensammlungen, Munich, Munich 1416 Tyrrhenian amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Achilles and Hector fighting over the body of Troilus, Side B: animal friezes, Tyrrhenian Group, Etruria,  Antikensammlungen, Munich, Munich 1426 Tyrrhenian amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Hercules and Nessus, Side B: Horsemen, Fallow Deer Painter, Etruria, Antikensammlungen, Munich, Munich 1428 Amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Gigantomachy, Side B: Gigantomachy, Etruria, Antikensammlungen, Munich, Munich 1437 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Hercules and Apollo - Struggle for the tripod, Side B: Dionysus and satyrs, On the neck: floral, Lysippides Painter, Etruria, Antikensammlungen, Munich, Munich 1478 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Scenes in Hades, Side A: Hercules and Cerberus, Side B: Sisyphus and small winged figures (amyetoi) pouring water into a leaky pithos, Bucci Painter, Etruria, Antikensammlungen, Munich, Munich 1493 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Hercules and the boar, Side B: Dionysus and woman reclining. On the neck: floral, Under the handles: Palmette complex, Circle of the Lysippides Painter, Etruria, Antikensammlungen, Munich, Munich 1562 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Hercules citharodus, with Athena, Side B: Frontal chariot, Lysippides Painter, Etruria, Antikensammlungen, Munich, Munich 1575 Hydria, Attic Black Figure, Achilles and Troilus(?) or Neoptolemus and Astyanax(?), On shoulder: Wall of Troy, Antiope Group, Etruria, Antikensammlungen, Munich, Munich 1700 Calyx, Attic Black Figure, Interior: Gorgoneum, Side A: Hercules and Apollo - Struggle for the tripod, Side B. Hercules and the lion, Lysippides Painter, Archaic, Etruria, Antikensammlungen, Munich, Munich 2080 Band cup, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Calydonian Boar Hunt, Side B: Theseus and the Minotaur, At each handle: sphinxes, Group of Louvre F 110, Etruria, Antikensammlungen, Munich, Munich 2243 Panel amphora, Attic Bilingual, Sides A and B: Hercules feasting, with Athena, Andocides Painter, Etruria, Antikensammlungen, Munich, Munich 2301 Panel amphora, Attic Bilingual, Side A: Dionysus reclining, with maenad and satyr, (RF) Side B: Chariot of Hercules, (BF), Psiax, Etruria, Antikensammlungen, Munich, Munich 2302 Calyx, Attic Red Figure, Interior: horseman, Sides A-B: Hercules and Geryon, Euphronius, Etruria, Antikensammlungen, Munich, Munich 2620 Tyrrhenian amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Achilles battling an Amazon, Side B: symposium, Below: Animal friezes, Omaha Painter, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha 1963.480 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Hercules and the Nemean Lion. Side B: Hermes, Hercules and a female(?) figure, Etruria, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia MS1753 Amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Dionysus and Athena, with Hermes, a maenad and a satyr, Side B: four satyrs carrying maenads, Near the Priam Painter, Etruria, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia MS2462A Hydria, Attic Black Figure, Main Panel: three women with hydria at a fountain, Shoulder scene: Hercules and the Nemean Lion, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia MS2463 Amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Athena with two draped males, Side B: three naked youths dancing, Etruria, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia MS2489 Amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: birth of Athena, Side B: chariot, charioteer, warriors and others, Group E, Etruria, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia MS3440 Amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: birth of Athena, Side B: reception of Athena in Olympus, Painter of Berlin 1686, Etruria, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia MS3441 Amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Hercules and the Nemean Lion, Side B: Dionysus and Ariadne, Kinship with Execias and the Lysippides Painter, Etruria, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia MS3497 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Dionysus, maenad and goat, Side B: Athena arming, Etruria, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia MS4834 Amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Combat scene, Side B: Apotheosis of Hercules, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RISD 22.212 Column crater, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Apotheosis of Hercules, Side B: Theseus and the Minotaur, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RISD 29.140 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: judgment of Paris, Side B: recovery of Helen, Antimenes Painter, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond 57.9 Panathenaic amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Goddess Athena, Side B: two riders, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa 86.24 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: departing warriors, Side B: Athena and combatant (giant?), Swing Painter, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa 86.25 Column crater, Attic Black Figure, Athena mounting chariot, Hercules, Manner of the Lysippides Painter, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa 86.38 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Athena, Apollo and Hermes, Side B: Dionysus, maenad and satyr, Priam Painter, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo 1929.48 Hydria, Attic Black Figure, Body: chariot, Shoulder: Hercules and Cerberus, Carithaius Painter, Etruria, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo 1950.261 Hydria, Attic Black Figure, Main panel: Hercules and Cycnus, Shoulder: Trainer and athletes, Near the Edinburgh Painter, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo 1955.42 Hydria, Attic Black Figure, Main panel: Hercules and Triton, Shoulder: apotheosis of Hercules, Predella: five horsemen racing, Painter of Vatican G 43, Etruria, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo 1956.69 Hydria, Attic Black Figure, Main panel: Apollo with Hermes, Artemis, Leto and Poseidon, Shoulder: Hercules and the Nemean Lion, Predella: confronted lions and boars, Antimenes Painter, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo 1956.70 Pointed amphora, Attic Black Figure, Sides A and B: Hercules and the stag in the presence of Athena, Leagros Group, Acheloos Painter, Toledo Museum of Art,  Toledo 1958.69A Calyx crater, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Achilles and Ajax playing a board game, Side B: Athletes and trainers, Rycroft Painter, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo 1963.26 Hydria, Attic Black Figure, Main panel: Hercules and Cerberus, Shoulder: departure of warriors and hunters, Leagros Group, Painter S, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo 1969.371 Neck amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Judgment of Paris, Side B: horseman and two men, Antimenes Painter, Etruria, Martin von Wagner Museum, University of Würzburg, Würzburg L 186 Belly amphora, Attic Black Figure, Side A: Theseus and the Minotaur, Side B: Hercules and the Lion, Group E, Martin von Wagner Museum, University of Würzburg, Würzburg L 248 Calyx, Attic Red Figure, Jumper, Compared to the Chaire Painter, Yale University Art Gallery, Yale 1913.162 Plate, Attic Red Figure, Ajax, son of Oileus, dragging Cassandra away from the statue of Athena, Paseas (The Cerberus Painter), Yale University Art Gallery, Yale 1913.169        Links:     Perseus Project - Archaic Vases: Images and descriptions of Archaic vases.   Back to the top     Copyright ©1998-1999 Roy George