object type / vase shape: attic red figure lekythos
<p>- description: Herakles, his club resting on his shoulder, shaking hands with a bearded man sitting on a rock (petasos and chlamys, holding sceptre): saying farewell to Peirithoos, leaving him in Hades, or bringing Admetos or Theseus back out of Hades?
- production place: Athens
- painter: Alkimachos Painter
- period / date: early classical, ca. 460 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- findspot: near Taranto
- museum / inventory number: Berlin, Altes Museum (Antikensammlung) 30035
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 532, 57
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