English: object type / vase shape: attic red figure cup (kylix)

ancient repair with a handle belonging to another cup, signed by the potter Hieron - description: interior: Herakles sitting on a block (resting in Olympus from his labours), holding kantharos, served with wine by Athena, tree - exterior side A and B: Peleus wrestling with Thetis to make her his wife, the other Nereids running to their father Nereus - production place: Athens - potter: Python - painter: Oedipus Painter / school of Douris - period / date: late archaic, transition to early classical, ca. 480-470 BC - material: pottery (clay) - height: 13,6 cm; diameter (without handles): 33,3 cm - findspot: Vulci - museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2648 - bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 441, 185 - Diana Buitron-Oliver, Douris: a master painter of red-figure vases, Mainz 1995, cat. O 8

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