Neck Amphora with Herakles and the Erymanthian Boar

ca. 520 BCE (Archaic)

28.4 cm 42.7 cm

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The scene depicts the third of Herakles' labors, the capture of the wild Erymanthian boar. The victorious hero has brought the boar alive to the king who had demanded the labor, and, as Herakles holds the boar aloft, King Eurystheus cowers below in a storage jar. Two female fi...

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Jean Mikas, Paris, by 1923, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, New York, 1923, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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