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Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Unknown Artist
Obverse, Herakles slaying the Egyptian king Busiris
Reverse, the king's priests and attendants in flight
One of the numerous adventures of Herakles took place in Egypt where he encountered Busiris, a king who had been advised to sacrifice all strangers to Zeus in order to avoid drought. Herakles prevailed over Busiris and killed him and all his henchmen.
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1915
c. 470-460 B.C.
Terracotta; red-figure
44.6in
15.27
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019