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O14.5 HERACLES, NESSUS & DEIANIRA

Heracles, Nessus & Deianira | Attic black figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Catalogue No. New York 56.171.23
Beazley Archive No. -
Ware Attic Black Figure
Shape Amphora, Neck
Painter -
Date ca. 510 B.C.
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Heracles attacks the centaur Nessus who has abducted his bride Deianira. The hero wears a lion-skin cloak, quiver and sheath and wields a sword. Deianira rides side-saddle on the back of the beast with her arm outstretched towards her husband. The centaur has the upper body of a man (his face obscured behind the maiden) and the lower body of a horse. He brandishes a large rock.

ARTICLES

Centaur Nessus