On view
Latin American Art
Hydria (water jug) depicting the apotheosis of Herakles,
ca. 530–520 BCE
in the manner of Lysippides Painter
Greek, Attic
Archaic Period, ca. 600–480 BCE
y171
Information
Title
Hydria (water jug) depicting the apotheosis of Herakles
Dates
ca. 530–520 BCE
Maker
in the manner of Lysippides Painter
Medium
Black-figure ceramic
Dimensions
46.6 x 42.4 x rim 26.8 cm (18 3/8 x 16 11/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Trumbull-Prime Collection
Object Number
y171
Place Collected
Europe, Italy, Nola, Campania (southern Italy)
Culture
Period
Mary Hollister Prime (née Trumbull) (1827-1872) and William Cowper Prime, Class of 1843 (1825-1905); 1890 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.
- J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-painters, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956)., p. 167
- John Boardman, et. al., Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC), (Zürich: Artemis Verlag, 1981-2009)., Vol. 4: p. 883, Demeter 468; p. 726, pl. 442, Herakleidai 9; p. 806, pl. 536, Herakles 1409; Vol. 5: p. 755, pl. 498, Iris I 153;
- Jaimee Pugliese Uhlenbrook and Karl Galinsky, Herakles: passage of the hero through 1000 years of classical art, (New Rochelle, NY: Artistide D. Caratzas, 1986)., pl. 56
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 79 (illus.)
