Black-figure plate (pinakion) depicting the dispute between Heracles and Apollo over the Delphic tripod
Attic black-figure plate, with white ground. Οn its interior is depicted the dispute between Heracles and Apollo over the Delphic tripod, a theme from the Delphic mythology that became widespread in the vase-painting of the 6th c. BC. Heracles has grabbed the symbolic vessel and raises his club threatening Apollo, who follows and tries to retrieve the tripod.
The plate has been found in the Corycian Cave, a sacred cave that has probably been the first religious center of the greater area of Delphi and functioned as a sanctuary of Pan and the Nymphs from the 8th c. BC until the 2nd c. AD.
- Ephorate of Antiquities of Phocis
- Archaeological Museum of Delphi, inv. n. A.M.D. 8656
- 490 – 465 BC
- H. 0.021 m. Max. Diam. 0.214 m.
- Terracotta
- Provenance: Corycean cave, Mount Parnassus
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