Wall fragment. Surface pitted in places. Max. dim. 0.161. LIMC V, 1990, p. 129, sub 2922, s.v. Herakles.

Apotheosis of Herakles. The fragment shows the chariot team (heads, necks of right-hand pole and trace horses, part of their forelegs; head of left-hand pole horse) galloping to left. Bit burrs are attached to mouthpieces of their bits. In front of and behind them are the shafts of four columns, and in the lower left, an object that is uncertain: conceivably it might be part of Hermes, who may appear in these scenes at the heads of the horses. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour. White: reins (flaked) and studs on harness; columns. Dilute glaze: drawing on white.

The subject is identified on the analogy of Pnyx P 171 and P 226 (Hesperia Suppl. X, p. 57, nos. 255, 256, pl. 24) and the comparative material cited there. For the theme in Attic red figure, see LIMC V, 1990, pp. 129--130, 132, s.v. Herakles(J. Boardman).

For bit burrs, cf. 96.

By the same hand as 441 and the bell-krater fragment from the Pnyx (P 171: Hesperia Suppl. X, p. 57, no. 255, pl. 24) that was said by Beazley (in a letter to Lucy Talcott dated April 6, 1953) to recall the Painter of London F 64 (not in ARV2). 440 and 441 are probably not from the same bell-krater because the glaze on the inside of 440 fired slightly brownish, that on 441 is black. In the composition, the two fragments would have to be too close to one another to permit this difference.