object type / vase shape: attic black figure neck-amphora
<p>- description shoulder A = B: Herakles fighting the lion, onlookers
- belly A: 4 hoplitodromoi, between onlookers and prize-tripods and dinoi
- belly B: 3 runners between draped men (judges or trainers)
- production place: Athens
- painter: Group E (not attributed to a specific painter)
- period / date: ripe archaic, ca. 540 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 35.8 cm
- findspot: Vulci
- museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 1471 (J 476)
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, 137.60, Para 55
- Raimund Wünsche, Lockender Lorbeer. Sport und Spiel in der Antike, München 2004, cat. 11
- CVA München 7, plates 346.1-3, 347.1-3
- Beazley Archive Pottery Database 310320
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