A: HERAKLES AND THE LION BETWEEN IOLAOS AND ATHENA | B: WARRIORS (NAMED, AKAMAS AND DEMOPHON) LEADING HORSES (BOTH NAMED)
Inscription
EXEKIAS | Kalos/Kale: ONETORIDES | Named: AKAMAS, [DE]MOPHON | Named: PHALIOS, KALIPHORA | Named: [I]OLAOS, HERAKLES, ATHE[NAIA], AKAMAS, PHALIOS, [DE]MOPHON, KALIPHORAS | ONETORIDES | Signature: ECHSEKIASEGRAPHSEKAPOESEME
Provenance
4 recorded events
Excavation
1828–1829
Vulci, Etruria, Italy
Excavated at the Vulci necropolis during the Canino campaigns.
Purchase
1829
Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino — Canino Collection
Musignano, Italy
Part of the Canino collection.
Sale
c. 1830s
Eduard Gerhard
Rome, Italy
Acquired by Eduard Gerhard, secretary of the Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica and purchasing agent for the Prussian museums.
Purchase
c. 1831
Königliches Museum, Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Acquired for the royal museum in Berlin through Gerhard. A neck-amphora by Exekias, the greatest of the Attic black-figure painters. Now in the Antikensammlung.
Beazley, ABV, 143.1; Berlin acquisition records
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)