Black figure Amphora with Hercules and the Stymphalian birds order Ancient Greek Ceramic Replica Museum Jar 19cm

Black figure Amphora with Hercules and the Stymphalian birds Ancient Greek Ceramic Replica Museum Jar 19cm
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Specifications

Height // 19 cm
Width // 10.5 cm

Weight // 0.480 kg

Materials: Clay, Fire, Terracotta, Acrylic Colours, Hand Made, Hand Painted

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THE ORNITHES STYMPHALIDES (Stymphalian Birds) were a flock of man-eating birds which haunted Lake Stymphalis in Arkadia (Arcadia). Herakles' destroyed them as the sixth of his twelve labours, employing a rattle to rouse them from the thick vegetation surrounding the lake and then felling them with his arrows or a sling.

The birds were perhaps set amongst the stars as the constellations Aquila and Cygnus which sit on either side of Sagitta, the arrow of Herakles.
The Stymphalides were sometimes identified with the arrow-shooting Ornithes Areioi (Birds of Ares) encountered by the Argonauts on the Black Sea.

Black-figure pottery, type of Greek pottery that originated in Corinth c. 700 bce and continued to be popular until the advent of red-figure pottery c. 530 bce. In black-figure painting, figures and ornamentation were drawn on the natural clay surface of a vase in glossy black pigment; the finishing details were incised into the black. The first significant use of the black-figure technique was on the Proto-Corinthian style pottery developed in Corinth in the first half of the 7th century bce. The Corinthian painter's primary ornamental device was the animal frieze. The Athenians, who began to use the technique at the end of the 7th century bce, retained the Corinthian use of animal friezes for decoration until c. 550 bce, when the great Attic painters, among them Exekias and the Amasis Painter, developed narrative scene decoration and perfected the black-figure style. Outside Corinth and Athens the most important studios producing black-figure ware were in Sparta and eastern Greece.

This item is an IDENTICAL reproduction of the museum original. The whole process is made by hand (like in ancient times) using only top quality row materials. Every piece is a stunning work of art, an amazing replica of order an actual historic vessel from a museum or other collection created between 2,800-2,000 years ago. Every piece is individually hand thrown terracotta, hand-shaped, and hand-painted in exquisite detail in Greece and signed by a professional master reproduction artist which masters the art of the ancient Greek pottery.

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