Terracotta aryballos (oil flask)
Otterlo Painter
ca. 595–570 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art
Herakles attacking a centaur, probably Nessos The Otterloo Painter favored a type of aryballos with a flattened bottom. The narrative, mythological subject is unusually ambitious in his work. The centaur Nessos offered to help Deianeira, Herakles' wife, ford a stream and, in so doing, attacked her. Herakles here draws his sword against the aggressor.
- Artist
- Otterlo Painter
- Date
- ca. 595–570 BCE
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek, Corinthian
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1906
