Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with double handles
Diosphos Painter
ca. 500 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art
Obverse, Herakles and Kerberos at the house of Hades; meaningless inscriptions Reverse, Hermes and Athena; meaningless inscriptions Kerberos, the mythical guard dog of Hades, is depicted with two heads. One head bites the loop of the leash; with the other, Kerberos catches the tail of Herakles' lion's skin in his jaws.
- Artist
- Diosphos Painter
- Date
- ca. 500 BCE
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek, Attic
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1941
