object type / vase shape: attic red figure hydria
<p>- description shoulder:the Dioskuroi Kastor and Polydeukes in their chariots raping  the Leukippides Elera and Eriphyle, in the middle a cult image of a goddess; name inscriptions: POLYDYKTE_S, ELERA, KASSTO_R, ERIPHYLE_, CHRYSIPPOS, APHRODITE_, CHRYSEIS, ZEUS, AGAUE_, PEITHO_
- body side A: Herakles in the garden of the Hesperides, in the middle the tree with the golden apples; name inscriptions: CHRYSOTHEMIS, ASSTEROPE_. YGIEA, KLYTIOS, LIPARA, E_RAKLE_S, IOLEO_S, 
- body side B: Athenian tribal heroes; name inscriptions: ELERA, ME_DEA, ARNIOPE_, PHILOKTE_TE_S, AKAMAS, IPPOTHO_N, ANTIOCHOS, KLYMENOS, OIN(E)US, DE_MOPHO_N, CHRYSIS
- production place: Athens
- potter: Meidias, signed: MEIDIAS EPOIE_SEN
- painter: Meidias Painter
- period / date: classical, ca. 420-400 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 52,1 cm
- museum / inventory number: London, British Museum 1772,0320.30.+ Cat. Vases E 224
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 1313, 5
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