Black-Figure Neck-Amphora (Storage Vessel): Herakles and Nemean Lion (A); Dionysos, Satyrs, and Maenads (B)

Painter of Berlin 1899 (Greek, Attic)

515–510 BCE

ceramic

Cleveland Museum of Art

This is a black-figure amphora depicting a scene of combat. A nude male figure, possibly Herakles, wrestles with a lion. Another figure, possibly Dionysos, stands to the left, holding a staff. The scene is rendered in black silhouette against the orange ceramic background.