Athenaen bilingual amphora vase.

Athenaen bilingual * amphora.

Side A (red-figure) :  Heracles and Athena.

Side B (Black -figure) : The goddess Athena, visiting Heracles, who is depicted lying down.

Circa 520–510 B.C

Munich.

* Bilingual vase painting was almost entirely restricted to belly amphorae of type B and to eye-cups. In some cases, either side of an amphora bore a depiction of the same motif, one in black-figure, the other in red-figure (e.g. on the belly amphora by the Andokides Painter, Munich 2301). Eye-cups usually feature a black-figure image on the interior, and red-figure motifs on the external surface.