object type / vase shape: attic black figure skyphos-krater
<p>- description A: Herakles with bow pursuing 2 centaurs
- B: pattern
- production place: Athens
- painter: compare the Nettos Painter (unknown) / compare the Gorgon Painter (Hunnekens), both attributions do not convince me; compare München Antikensammlung 7409 (between Polos and Gorgon Painters), but the combination of outline drawing of the heads (as in the protoattic style) and genuin black figure incision is peculiar
- period / date: late orientalizing, ca. 620-600 BC (my estimate)
- material: pottery (clay)
- findspot: Vari
- museum / inventory number: Athens, National Archaeological Museum 16400
- bibliography: Beazley Archive Pottery Database 9024844
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