Struggle of Heracles against the Nemean lion. Red-figure amphora. Attic
(Goddess Athene on the right; coachman Iolaus on the left.)
By the Exekias Painter.
Clay. Ca. 550 BCE.
Height 40.5 cm.
Berlin, State Museums

Struggle of Heracles against the Nemean lion. Red-figure amphora. Attic.

(Goddess Athene on the right; coachman Iolaus on the left.)
By the Exekias Painter.
Clay. Ca. 550 BCE.
Height 40.5 cm.

Berlin, State Museums
(Staatliche Museen zu Berlin).

Origin:
From Vulci.
Credits:
© Photo, text: G. R. Maier. Gosudarstvennye muzei Berlina. GDR. Albom.
Per. s nem. E. I. Larionovoi i E. I. Marchenko. M.: “Izobrazitel’noe iskusstvo”, 1983, kat. No. 55.
Photographer G. Murza.
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