Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) ca. 510 B.C. Greek, Attic Obverse, Herakles, Deianeira, and NessosReverse, centaurs beat the lapith Kaineus into the groundInscription: obverse, Herakles; reverse, Dase, SimiasCentaurs are represented on both sides of this vase. The scene on the obverse was popular beginning in the seventh century B.C. According to myth, the centaur Nessos attacked Deianeira and Herakles rescued her, shooting the beast with an arrow poisoned with the Hydra's blood. But on this particular vase and on most illustrated depictions of this myth, Herakles attacks Nessos with his sword.. Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) 254881 Greek, Attic, Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), ca. 510 B.C., Terracotta, H. 16 1/8 in. (41 cm.) Diameter of mouth 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm.) Diameter of foot 5 15/16 in. (15 cm.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Fletcher Fund, 1956 (56.171.23)