Pottery: black-figured lekythos (oil or perfume flask). Designs black on red ground, with incised lines and accessories of white and purple. On the neck, a moulded ring. On the shoulder: Two hounds at full speed to right pursuing a hare which looks back at them. In the field, leaves. On the body, Nessos carrying off Deianeira: The Centaur gallops to right, looking back: he has long hair, and carries Deianeira in his arms; she has long hair with a fillet, long purple chiton, and arms extended; her flesh is painted white. Behind Nessos runs Heracles pursuing, bearded, with a fillet, short purple chiton with chevron border, sword and double cross-belt, left hand raised, in right his club; his face is painted purple. Confronting the Centaur is a panther rearing to left, with face turned to the front. In the field, rosettes and leaves. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893