Acheloos painter

Athlete with jumping weights in his hands and aulos musician , black- figure lekythos by the Acheloos painter, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 1892)

The Acheloos painter (active around 525 to 500 BC in Athens ) was a Greek vase painter of the black-figure style. It received its emergency name after a depiction of the battle of the river god Acheloos against Heracles on the amphora F in 1851 in the Berlin Collection of Antiquities . He belonged to the so-called Leagros group .

Selected Works

• Altenburg, State Lindenau Museum

Neck amphora 221

• Basel, Antikenmuseum and Ludwig Collection

Abdominal amphora BS 1906.294

• Berlin, Collection of Antiquities

Amphora F 1845 • Amphora F 1851 • Hydria F 1905

• Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museums

Amphora 1960.314

• Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco

Pointed amphora 3871

• London, The British Museum

Panathenaic amphora B 167

• Mississippi, University of Mississippi

Amphora 1977.3.71

• Munich, Glyptothek and Antikensammlung

Pointed amphora SL 459

• Reading, The Ure Museum of Greek Archeology

Amphora 10/45/22

• Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art

Pointed amphora 58.69

• Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum

Amphora 210

literature

• John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1956

Web links

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