Main panel: Herakles slaying the Lernean hydra

Overview: strap handle rear

Handle: right of main panel

Collection: Malibu, The J. Paul Getty Museum
Summary: Herakles and Iolaos slaying the Lernean Hydra; sphinxes.
Ware: Caeretan
Painter: Attributed to the Eagle Painter
Attributed By: J.M. Hemelrijk
Context: probably from Caere
Date: ca. 525 BC
Dimensions:

H. 44.6 cm., d. mouth 22.9 cm., d. body 33.4 cm.

Shape: Hydria
Region: Etruria
Period: Archaic


Collection History:

Ex. coll. Count Antoine Seilern, London.

Other Bibliography:

Robertson 1975, vol. 1, p. 139, vol. 2, figs 40d, 42a, p. 639, note 142; Christie's, July 2, 1982, lot no. 252; J. Frel, et al., "Recent Acquisitions," Getty Museum Journal 12, p. 250, no. 99 and figs. 99a-c; Hemelrijk 1984, p. 41, no. 23; Handbook (1986), p. 46; Antiques, ed. by Drury, London, 1986, p. 105; Amyx, Darrell A., "The Many Loves of Zeus (and their Consequences)," ArchNews 8, no. 4 (1979), pp. 104, 114, no. 39, illus. figs. 12-13; Mattusch, C., "Field Notes," ArchNews 13, nos. 1-2 (1984), p. 34 illus.; Webster 1928, no. 22; N. Plaoutine, "Le peintre des hydries dites de Caeré," RA 1941, no. 2, pp. 18-19; Maria Santangelo, "Les nouvelles hydries de Caeré au Musée de la Villa Giulia," MonPiot 44 (1950), p. 8, fig. 6, p. 13; Hemelrijk, J.M. and Lubsen-Admiraal, Stella, "Notes on some Caeretan Hydriai," Bulletin Antieke Beschaving. Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology, vol. 52/53 (1977/1978), pp. 1-29, illus. figs. 1-26; "Acquisitions Supplement," Getty Museum Journal 12 (1984): 250, no. 99.<