Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Sappho Painter

ca. 500–490 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Herakles and Apollo contesting the Delphic tripod, with Artemis and Athena A favored subject during the third quarter of the sixth century B.C. was the struggle between Herakles and Apollo for the Delphic tripod. The most significant depiction in the Museum's collection appears on a very early red-figure amphora of about 530 B.C. signed by the potter Andokides; it is exhibited in the Greek galleries on the main floor. The lekythos shows a simpler variant of the same subject, complete with the inclusion of white slip, here limited to the shoulder.

Artist

Sappho Painter

Date

ca. 500–490 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Attic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1966