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From:UC Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities

Name/TitleBand-Cup

About this objectIn the scene on this drinking cup, Herakles and some accompanying youths engage in battle with an Amazon, whose white skin indicates she is a female. This scene, repeated on both sides of the cup, is probably the ninth of Herakles' Twelve Labours, fighting the Amazons to steal their queen Hippolyte’s leather belt.

Black-figure cups like this one have the decoration in a band, while the rest of the cup is left black.

Date Madeca. 550 - 525BC

PeriodArchaic

Place MadeGreece

Medium and MaterialsCeramic; Pottery

Style and IconographyAttic

Style and IconographyBlack-figure

TechniqueBlack-figure vase painting

MeasurementsHeight 130mm; Diameter 218mm.

Named CollectionThe James Logie Memorial Collection, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Credit LinePurchased, 1958.

Object TypeDrinking Vessels

Object number55.58