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GODS AND MYTHS

Hercules / Myths / Labours / Cerberus / Hercules pulling a defeated Cerberus behind him / with Mercury or Minerva
Mercury / Myths / Mercury protecting Hercules in the Underworld
Mercury / Attributes / Caduceus
Mercury / Attributes / Petasos
Mercury / Attributes / Winged sandals
Minerva / Myths / Minerva and Hercules / Minerva protecting Hercules in the underworld
Proserpina / Attributes / Staff

Further details

Athenian black-figure belly-amphora (Type B). Left to right: Herakles, Kerberos, Hermes, Persephone.

Artist or creator

Eucharides painter (active c500-475 BC) (attributed)

Date

550 BC - 490 BC (circa)

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities) (inv. 1893,0712.11)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

H. B. Walters, On Some Black-Figured Vases Recently Acquired by the British Museum, Journal of Hellenic Studies 18 (1898), pp. 281-301, p. 293 (with a list of Cerberus vases)

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Web resources

British Museum
Beazley Archive

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

Contact

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