An Attic Terracotta Amphora Fragment depicting Herakles' Banquet

Attributed to the Acheloos Painter, circa 525-500 B.C.

Width 10 1/2 inches (26.67 cm).

Property from a Private Connecticut Collection

Provenance:

Rolf Blatter, Berne, Switzerland, acquired prior to 1976.

Galerie Cahn, Basel, Switzerland, prior to 2012.

(Art Loss Register no. S00064761)

Published:

R. Blatter, "Herakles beim Gelage", in Archäeologischer Anzeige, 1976, p. 49-52, fig. 1.

K. Schauenburg, JdI 94, 1979, p. 62, note 46.

A. Verbanck-Piérard, "Herakles at Feast in Attic Art: a Mythical or Cultic Iconography?", in The

Iconography of Greek Cult in the Archaic and Classical Periods, Liège, 1992, p. 85-106, fig. 2.

S.R. Wolf, Herakles beim Gelage, Cologne, 1993, p. 200, cat. no. sf.18, fig. 18.

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An Attic Terracotta Amphora Fragment depicting Herakles' Banquet

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