Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), Archaic, ca. 500 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-figure, Height: 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm), Vases, Obverse, Hera sending out Iris with the Nemean lion, Reverse, Herakles wrestling the Nemean lion. The very rare representation on the obverse depicts a story preserved in Hesiod's Theogony. Hera, queen of the gods, sends out Iris, the divine messenger, with the lion that will ravage the region of Nemea
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Terracotta neck-amphora, jar, Archaic, ca, 500 B.C, Greek, Attic, Terracotta, black-figure, Height, 8 7/8, 22.5 cm, Vases, Obverse, Hera sending out, Iris, Nemean lion, Reverse, Herakles wrestling, rare representation, obverse depicts, story preserved, Hesiod, Theogony, Hera, queen, gods, sends, divine messenger, lion, will ravage, region, Nemea
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