An Attic black-figure neck amphora Attributed to the Group of Toronto 305, circa 550-500 B.C. Side A depicting a bearded nude Herakles wrestling the Nemean Lion, with Athena on the right, holding a spear and wearing a high crested helmet, to the left an older bearded man wearing a striped chlamys and looking back over his shoulder at the fight, side B with a bearded charioteer turning his chariot, the two outer horses facing forward with the two central horses facing the viewer, a thick groundline below, red and black tongues on the shoulder, with double palmette chain on the neck above, rays emanating from the base, with thick triple reed handles, lotus bud and scrolling palmette tendrils under each handle, details incised and in added red and white, 32.5cm high