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Antimenes Amphora Vase and Herakles Fighting the Nemeian Lion

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the style and iconography of the vase have held the attention of scholars for years, leading them to determine that this work of Antimenes is among one of the best  examples of its kind. STYLE OF THE VASE The Antimenes Painter decorated vases in the black-figure technique in Athens from about 530 to 510 B.C.(Boardman 2001). What makes the  Herakles vase so different is that it is a black figured vase as opposed to the red figured vase that most artists of this period were turning toward. In fact,  from the rest of his work he seems to have been one of the premier black figure artists of the age. Nearly all of his work favors the topics  including Herakles or scenes depicting fountain-houses. A rather prolific artist, more than a hundred of his vases have survived. Herakles fighting the Nimeian Lion is a classical neck amphora,  which means that a compound called englobe was used to turn the figures black upon firing(Boardman 2001). It is generally considered to be of the archaic type. These neck amphora  were generally used to carry water or other such liquids. The Amphora has two handles and is generally a swollen vessel with a rather large mouth. It was designed for  the storing of provisions. Those found abundantly under the sea in ancient shipwrecks have a narrow neck and were not designed to stand without support. They were used for transporting  oils or wines. Most vases were shaped on a turn table or potters wheel. A large amount of moist clay was set on the wheel and shaped by the potters  hands as the table was turned. He probably relied on his own instinct for beauty to determine the proper curvature of the lines and proportions of the vessels. The potter