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Squat Lekythos Showing Herakles and the Nemean Lion
540-530 BCE (Archaic)
terracotta; black figure
This squat lekythos shows Herakles engaged in his first labor, wrestling the Nemean lion, with Athena and Iolus observing. An animal frieze decorates the upper register.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Joseph Brummer, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Greece, Attica (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Overall: 5 1/2 x 2 11/16 in. (14 x 6.8 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1925
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.203