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ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE WHITE-GROUND KYATHOS, GROUP OF VATICAN G57 Between apotropaic eyes Herakles battles a crouching warrior, perhaps Kyknos, grasping his shield blazoned with a tripod. On either side of the handle is a nude crouching warror, one with a shield blazon of a bearded snake, the other a satyr mask. Pub: J. Boardman and M. Robertson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain, Castle Ashby, Northampton, Oxford, 1979, pl. 24, nos. 7-9; A.J. Paul, Exhibition catalogue, A View into Antiquity: Pottery from the Collection of William Suddaby and David Meier, Tampa, 2001, no. 16. Ex collection of the Marquess of Northampton, Castle Ashby; William Suddaby, Key West. Ca. 515-505 BC H. 6 in. (15.2 cm.) 1,000 Years of Ancient Greek Vases II, no. 61 Art of the Ancient World, 2007, no. 121 CNU62 $35,000 Sales |
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| The tripod shield blazon would suit the location of Delphi, where Kyknos robbed and killed supplicants on their way to the oracular shrine. | |
