object type / vase shape: attic red figure cup type B
<p>- description interior: young rider wearing petasos and short mantle - exterior side A: Herakles fighting the three-bodied Geryone(u)s, the shepherd Eurytion and the dog Orthros are already dead, shot by Herakles´ arrows, Iolaos and Athena stand behind Herakles, a woman (the mother of Geryoneus?) stands behind Geryoneus with a gesture of mourning - side B: 4 hoplites leading (Geryoneus´?) herd of cattle; name inscriptions
- production place: Athens
- potter: Kachrylion ("Chachrylion") (signed on the foot)
- painter: Euphronios (signed on the foot)
- period / date: late archaic, ca. 510 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height:  15,9 cm; diameter rim: 42,8 cm
- findspot: Vulci
- museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2620 / 8704
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 16, 17
Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer and others, catalogue to the special exhibition (Berlin 1991 ) „Euphronios. Der Maler“, Milano 1991, cat. 41
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