CUP (ATHENIAN, RED-FIGURE)
A,B: INTRODUCTION OF HERAKLES ON OLYMPOS, ZEUS AND HERA, IRIS, POSEIDON AND AMPHITRITE, DIONYSOS, ARES AND APHRODITE, HESTIA, HORAI, HERMES CARRYING RAM, ARTEMIS OR APOLLO (?) WITH LYRE, DEMETER ? (NAMED, SOME SEATED WITH PHIALAI ON STOOLS WITH LION SKINS) | I: ACHILLES TENDING PATROKLOS (BOTH NAMED), SHIELD DEVICE, TRIPOD | Under handle 1: HEAD OF WOMAN
Inscription
Named: HORAI, AOPHITRITE, HESTIA, HERMES, ARTEMIS | Named: PATROKLOS, ACH[I]LLEUS, HEBE, AR[ES], APH[RODITE] | SOSIAS | Signature: SOSIASEPOIESEN | Speech: ZEU PHILE
Provenance
4 recorded events
Excavation
1828–1829
Vulci, Etruria, Italy
From the Vulci excavations.
Purchase
1829
Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino — Canino Collection
Part of the Canino collection.
Sale
c. 1830s
Eduard Gerhard
Rome, Italy
Acquired by Eduard Gerhard for the Berlin Museum.
Purchase
c. 1831
Königliches Museum, Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Acquired for the Berlin Museum. Now in the Antikensammlung.
Berlin acquisition records
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)