An Attic White Ground Lekythos, circa 490-480 B.C.

painted in black and brown wash with Herakles destroying the house of Nereus with a trident, broken vessels on the ground, the inscription KALOS in the field, a linked palmette and lotus flower at left, a double palmette at right, meander below the shoulder, linked palmettes on the shoulder, tongues below the neck.

Münzen & Medaillen AG, Basel, 1976

Konrad Schauenburg, in Monumentum Chilionense, Kieler Festschrift  für E. Burck zum 70. Geb., Amsterdam, 1975, pp. 552ff, figs. 8. 10, and 11
Wilhelm Hornbostel et al., Kunst der Antike. Schätze aus norddeutschem Privatbesitz, catalogue of the exhibition at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, June 21st to March 6th, 1977, Mainz am Rhein, 1977, pp. 310-311, no. 265, illus.
Claude Bérard, "Iconographie-Iconologie-Iconologique,"Etudes de lettres, vol. 4, 1983, p. 16, fig. 5
Frank Brommer, Herakles II: Die unkanonischen Taten des Helden, Darmstadt, 1984, pl. 47B
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 1554

good, handle repaired at juncture with body with areas of restoration at break, large area of restoration or overpainting encircling neck below mouth, scratches and abrasions to paint
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