Belly Amphora with the Reclamation of Helen and Herakles and Kerberos

540-530 BCE (Archaic)

32.1 cm 48.2 cm 20.2 cm

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In another of his labors, Herakles has returned from the underworld with Kerberos, the multi-headed dog who guards its entrance, while the messenger-god Hermes leads the way, with two women looking on. On the back, a warrior draws his sword on a modestly veiled woman in the pr...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, before 1897, no. 189; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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