Decoration: Shoulder: HERAKLES AND THE LION BETWEEN WARRIOR AND ATHENA SEATED ON BLOCKS, WARRIORS, TREE, BLOCK, SHIELD, DEVICES, DOLPHINS, SNAKE, LEAVES (?)
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E168
CAVI Lemma: RF hydria (kalpis). From Vulci. Syriskos Painter. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Body: Heracles and the Lion; at left, a warrior, and Iolaus seated; a square
base; at right, Athena seated and a warrior.
CAVI Inscriptions: Body: above the central scene: hο παις καλος, retr. Behind Athena: καλος.
Above Iolaus: hο παλος{1}. To left of the left warrior: καλε, retr.{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} these two go together: hο παλος | καλος. {2} this might refer to the
base.
CAVI Comments: The Syriskos Painter seems to like παλος: see London E 161.
CAVI Number: 4516
AVI Bibliography: C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 152. — H.B. Walters and E.J. Forsdyke, CVA
London 5, Great Britain 7 (1930), III I c, pls. 73,3 and 74,2. — ARV[2] (1963),
263/43. — Add.[2] (1989), 205.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
