Amphora Depicting Gigantomachy and Contest Between Herakles and Kyknos

Description Side A of this vase depicts a scene from the contest between Kyknos (a son of Ares) and Herakles. The latter appears in a quadriga (four-horse chariot) with Athena by his side. On side B Athena and Ares are depicted spearing two fallen giants.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
4/01/2013	Treatment	cleaned

Provenance Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902