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Black-figure skyphos: symposium of Hermes and Herakles
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This skyphos, a type of wine cup, is of extraordinary size, a cup for a serious drinker. The cup is decorated in the black-figure technique by an anonymous artist known as the Theseus Painter and features essentially the same subject on both sides: the god Hermes and the heroic Herakles, who became a god at the end of his life, relaxing at a sort of Olympian picnic, their weapons hanging above. On one side the half-brothers shake hands, while on the other Herakles holds a cornucopia, a horn filled with fruits and cakes, demonstrating the ritual offerings that mortals owe to the gods.
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ca. 490 B.C.
From an unknown date to 1964, with Dr. Herbert Cahn, Basel; sold in 1964 to André Emmerich, New York; sold in 1964 to Dr. Paul Vignos, Ohio, USA; sold at auction on November 7, 2011, lot 578 to an anonymous owner; sold again in April 25, 2012, lot 11, to Ariadne Galleries, NY; purchased by the Museum in 2012.
Black-figure wine-cup (skyphos). On either side: Symposium of Hermes and Herakles
<em>Masterpieces of greek vase painting: 7th to 5th century B. C.: André Emmerich Gallery, Inc. 17 East 64th Street, New York, April 22 to May 30, 1964</em>, (New York: André Emmerich Gallery, 1964).
7063 1964J.D. Beazley, <em>Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-figure Vase-painters and Attic Red-figure Vase-painters</em> (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971)., p. 257
2384 1971Stamatēs Phritzilas, <em>Ho zōgraphos tou Thēsea: hē Attikē angeiographia stēn epochē tēs neosystatēs athēnaïkēs dēmokratias (The Painter of Theseus - Attic Vase-painting in the Age of Young Athenian Democracy)</em>, (Athēnai: Hē en Athēnais Archaiologikē Hetaireia, 2006). , p. 80-81; pl. 38; no. 142
7065 2006Joanna van der Lande, <em>Antiquities: Wednesday 25 April 2012 at 11am, New Bond Street, London</em>, (London: Bonhams, 2012)., lot 11
7064 2012"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2012," <em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 71/72 (2012-13): p. 105-132., p. 119 (illus.)
2988 2012
