Attic Lekythos with Herakles Scene

ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS
Shape and Ornament: Cylindrical body tapered to a disk foot, flaring mouth glazed on inside. Glazed tongues above encircled palmettes of the shoulder. Dot band above figures, two reserved bands below. Edge of mouth and edge of foot reserved.
Subject: Herakles battling Andromache (?), flanked by two more Amazons. Andromache, dressed in a short tunic and a cloak and a crested Corinthian helmet, is falling on her left knee while turning her head back left. She is armed with a shield (device: starburst). Herakles, facing right, stands over her with sword poised to strike. He wears a short chiton with lionskin over it. The Amazons wear short chitons, cloaks, and crested helmets. The Amazon to the right is armed with shield (device: snake) and spear. She comes in to help. The Amazon to left is fleeing. In the field, a branch with fruit.
Accessory Colors: red: eye and hairline of Andromache, dots on Herakles' lionskin and quiver, shield grip of left Amazon. White: flesh of Amazons, fruit.
From Thebes.
Attributed to the Haimon Group by Beazley (ABV, p. 548, no. 278) confirmed by D. von Bothmer, Amazons in Greek Art (Oxford 1957), p. 58, no. 192. First quarter of the fifth century B.C. --Wisseman, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Plate 12, 1-3.

Beazley, [-]. ABV, p. 548, no. 278.

Bothmer, D. von. Amazons in Greek Art . Oxford, 1957, p. 58, no. 192.

Wisseman, Sarah U. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Philipp von Zabern: Mainz, 1989. Page 13, Plate 12, 1-3.