Fragment from Black-Figure Neck-Amphora of Panathenaic Shape (Storage Vessel): Apollo and Zeus
Medium
ceramic
Dimensions
h. 1.2 cm, d. 0.7 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
Accession Number
1915.533.a
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About this artwork
Comparison with better-preserved vases—and with other artworks and monuments, such as the famous Siphnian Treasury at Delphi—helps to fill in some of the action no longer surviving from the rest of this vase, which once showed Apollo and Herakles struggling for the Delphic tripod. One claw-footed leg of the tripod survives, across the chest of Zeus, the bearded figure who intervened to stop the quarrel between two of his sons. Apollo is the unbearded figure at left, while Herakles would have app...