Terracotta lekythos (oil flask) ca. 490 B.C. Attributed to the Class of Athens 581.1 The centaur Pholos, Herakles, Athena, and HermesOn this vase, the centaur Pholos prepares for a feast, an event whose smell attracts other centaurs and leads to a fierce conflict in which Herakles eventually drives off his assailants. This depiction of Pholos is unusual in that he does not have the expected human abdomen, but instead, his human legs are attached directly to his equine body, giving him the chest of a horse.. Terracotta lekythos (oil flask). Greek, Attic. ca. 490 B.C.. Terracotta; black-figure on white ground. Archaic. Vases

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Terracotta lekythos (oil flask) ca. 490 B.C. Attributed to the Class of Athens 581.1 The centaur Pholos, Herakles, Athena, and HermesOn this vase, the centaur Pholos prepares for a feast, an event whose smell attracts other centaurs and leads to a fierce conflict in which Herakles eventually drives off his assailants. This depiction of Pholos is unusual in that he does not have the expected human abdomen, but instead, his human legs are attached directly to his equine body, giving him the chest of a horse.. Terracotta lekythos (oil flask). Greek, Attic. ca. 490 B.C.. Terracotta; black-figure on white ground. Archaic. Vases

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