Art Institute of Chicago
Mastoid (Drinking Cup)
Attributed to the Manner of the Haimon PainterLinkedCulture matchlcp-6ce7c8d56345
- Date
- 500-480 BCE
- Medium
- terracotta, black-figure
- Culture
- Athens
- Department
- Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 283
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This drinking cup depicts Herakles’s fight with the Cretan Bull, represented twice in the continuous frieze around the vase; there is a long dotted vine or ivy branch above. The hero stoops low to grasp the bull by one horn, forcing it to its knees. Behind him, as if suspended in the branch, is his cloak and his sword in its scabbard. To the left of one scene crouches a figure with a cloak around one arm and a club (presumably Iolaos with Herakles’s club), while to the left of the second version of the scene is a striding Athena, arm outstretched and covered with her snake-lined aegis - she wears a helmet and carries a spear.
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- Credit line
- Museum Purchase Fund
- Provenance
- Pio Marinangeli, Rome; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1889.
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- Object type
- AAT300193015
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