Amphora (storage vessel): Herakles in Combat with the Amazon Andromache

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Amphora (storage vessel): Herakles in Combat with the Amazon Andromache

Artist The Antimenes Painter (Greek)

Place of OriginGreece, from Attica

Date525-500 BCE

DimensionsH: 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm); Diam (lip): 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm); Diam (body): 10 1/4 in. (26 cm); Diam (foot): 5 15/16 in. (13.8 cm)

MediumBlack Figure; Wheel-thrown, slip-decorated earthenware with incised details.

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1955.225

Not on View

Collections

Decorative Arts

Published References

Bothmer, Dietrich von, Amazons in Greek Art, Oxford, 1957, pp. 61, no. 233 bis., (where the Museum accession number is given incorrectly as 1955..88), 62, 63, 225.

Brommer, Frank, Vasenlisten zur griechischen Heldensage, Marburg, 2nd ed., 1960, p. 9, no. 9, 12.

Washington, Seldon, "Greek Vase Painting," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 5, no. 4, 1962, p. 84.

Beazley, John D., Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 120, no. 38, bis. (where the Museum accession number is given incorrectly as 55.88).

Luckner, Kurt T., "Greek Vases: Shapes and Uses," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 15, no. 3, 1972, pp. 64-65.

Brommer, Frank, Vasenlisten zur griechischen Heldensage, Marburg, 3rd ed., 1973, p. 12, no. 92.

Boulter, Cedric G., and Kurt T. Luckner, Corpus vasorum antiquorum: Toledo Museum of Art, U.S.A. Fasc. 17, Toledo, 1976, p. 5-6, repr. pl. 7 and 8, grafitto drawing fig. 2.

Dorr, Erin, "Fragments of a lost culture," Perspectives, Ohio University, vol. 10, no. 1, Spring-Summer 2006, side A, repr. p. 23 (det., col.)

Albersmeier, Sabine, ed., Heroes! Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece, Baltimore, MD, Walters Art Gallery, 2009, no. 49, repr. (col.) p. 231.

Matheson, Susan B. and J. J Pollitt, Old Age in Greek and Roman Art, Yale University Art Gallery, 2022, App. 65, repr. (col.) p. 86-87, 218.

Exhibition History

Baltimore, MD, Walters Art Museum; Nashville, TN, Frist Center for the Visual Arts; San Diego Museum of Art, CA; New York, Onassis Center, Heroes! Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece, October 11, 2009 – January 3, 2011.

Label TextWith the queen of the Amazons willing to hand over her prized belt, Herakles’ ninth labor seemed rather simple. But the goddess Hera, Herakles’ immortal nemesis, infected the Amazons with the notion that Herakles and his band of companions intended to abduct their queen. The ferocious women warriors therefore rushed to save Hippolyte from her nonexistent doom.. This amphora shows the ensuing fight between Herakles and the Amazons, with the Amazon queen attempting to escape to the right as the hero grabs her helmet. Believing Hyppolyte had tricked him and ordered her warriors to attack, Herakles killed her, taking the belt by force.